Animal Quote by Laura Ingalls Wilder

“In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. There the wild animals wandered and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to…

— Doug Peacock

The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely…

— Richard Rodriguez

There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every…

— Val Kilmer

“This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets…

— Sebastian Barry

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than…

— John Muir

“The column was halted for a rest, and a number of officers, myself among them, rode out two or three miles to the right…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new life in…

— Richard Rodriguez

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard…

— John Muir

“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being destroyed bit…

— Mary Crow Dog

“These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency…

— William T. Sherman

In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was…

— Benjamin Carson