Citizenship Quote by Mark Edwin Miller

“In existing writings about federally recognized tribes and their engagement with tribal acknowledgment politics, a palpable theme is clear: presently recognized nations are not…

— Mark Edwin Miller

“A host of scholars – many of whom, like Deloria, have aided petitioning tribes – support the ‘small pie’ theory. They believe that government…

— Mark Edwin Miller

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

— Russell Smith

“Just as the Five Tribes and others were formalizing their tribal governments and running their own programs, legal aid groups were helping nonrecognized tribes…

— Mark Edwin Miller

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom…

— Joe Baca

"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think…

— Gertrude Stein

Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes…

— William J. Clinton

Native American isn't blood. It is what is in the heart. The love for the land, the respect for it, those who inhabit it,…

— Anonymous

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm…

— Sherman Alexie

We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

— John Trudell

I can be a mix of both. I don't have to be an Indian or an American. They're not mutually exclusive. It's something growing…

— Vidya Vox

Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a... you're a... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity.

— George W. Bush