American Native Quote by Landon Y. Jones

“The historical irony is that European Christians coming to the Americas were escaping highly stratified and intolerant societies; in North America they encountered societies…

— Steven Charleston

“It was not long until it became manifest that I would have to either give up the Indians or lose my standing with the…

— Daniel Webster Jones

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were…

— Philipp Meyer

“While the hardware of civilization - iron pots, blankets, guns - was welcomed by Native people, the software of Protestantism and Catholicism - original…

— Thomas King

“For millennia, Native Americans have had a relationship with the land that encompasses respect and appreciation for all it provides.”

— Deborah Kesten

“the European story is one in which the movement of people is inherent. Even though we have national identities, and pride and traditions that…

— Adam Rutherford

“I suppose my biggest frustration is that we as white people come into a culture and demand that the natives do things our way.…

— Tracie Peterson

“At the time, most Europeans believed that religious conformity was necessary to safeguard civil order, and they questioned how such a diverse colony could…

— David S. Kidder

When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of…

— Mary Pipher

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told that they…

— Isak Dinesen

“It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this…

— Peter Jenkins