Quote by Margalit Fox

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

— Wilma Mankiller

“Go searching for your own tribe! And at no time conceal or camouflage your true self. You never know who may be out there…

— Karl Wiggins

“You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn’t the streets of Laredo.”

— Jeffery Deaver

I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself…

— Dorothy Allison

“words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.”

— Seamus Heaney

“It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men…

— LaVyrle Spencer

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and…

— Wilma Mankiller

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

— Loretta Lynn

“White people build a really big fire and stand way back. Indians build a little-bitty fire and get real close.”

— Rickey Bray

“They were just little families cooking beans and planting and hunting a deer now and then, and having babies and laying their old folks…

— Nancy E. Turner

“People think Indians are a problem, but it’s them white outlaws who are the threat.”

— Susan Denning