Tribes Quote by 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

“As historian Theda Perdue and anthropologist Jack Campisi have noted separately, the closing of all-Indian schools created a crisis for southeastern Indians. When institutions…

— Mark Edwin Miller

“Confusing the matter is the fact that there are three often-conflicting definitions at play: American Indians are the only people defined as an ethnic…

— Mark Edwin Miller

“A host of scholars who have studied surviving southeastern Indian groups conclude that few if any of these peoples possess cultures that do not…

— Mark Edwin Miller

“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

Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests…

— Corey Taylor

Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites…

— William T. Vollmann

In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the…

— John Dos Passos

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before…

— Tecumseh

Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

— Chief Seattle

The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from…

— Richard Owen

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

— Ambrose Bierce