Acquaintance Quote by Leonard Peltier

Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been a radical,…

— Larry Brilliant

As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding…

— Arundhati Roy

Even though the American Indian Movement on a national-international scale has proven to be extremely dysfunctional, the American Indian Movement I was associated with…

— Russell Means

I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books…

— Q'orianka Kilcher

I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American Indian Movement…

— Leonard Peltier

I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the…

— Larry Brilliant

“Many of these mixed-blood Indian people were eventually forced into hiding or denial of their Indian ancestry because of their fear of removal to…

— Rickey Butch Walker

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

— Skeet Ulrich

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

— Sherman Alexie

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

— Skeet Ulrich

Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad,…

— Alexandra Fuller

The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance…

— Leslie Marmon Silko