Aggressive Quote by Leonard Peltier

There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy that you…

— Leonard Peltier

When you're growing up in Indian Country - though it's different depending on each tribal nation - by and large, where I grew up,…

— Lily Gladstone

Today what we see is tribes moving into the 21st century and facing real 21st century problems of globalization, of multi-national, national resource development,…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

“Doesn't an Indian tribe finally surrender to colonization by becoming as capitalistic as our conquerors? Isn't indigenous economic sovereignty one of the sneakiest damn…

— Sherman Alexie

It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will…

— Andrew Jackson

Since its inception, the government has broken and coerced treaties with hundreds of Native American tribes. And this is even worse when you realize…

— W. Kamau Bell

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of…

— Martin Van Buren

“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as…

— James W. Loewen

As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been…

— Markwayne Mullin

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to…

— James Monroe

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

Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of…

— Bryan Fischer