Civilization Quote by Paula Gunn Allen

“The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages,…

— Karen Joy Fowler

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

— Paul Theroux

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

— Arundhati Roy

The problem with Indians is that we have lost the habit of thinking big!

— Dhirubhai Ambani

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

— Vine Deloria Jr

You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen…

— Indira Gandhi

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'

— Anonymous

Laughter - that is something very sacred especially for us Indians.

— John Fire Lame Deer

“...the [Hawthorn] report revealed the logical fallacy that has haunted Indian history and policy in North America since contact - to wit, that all…

— Thomas King

Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

— Luis Gonzalez

“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

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

— Alexander Pope