American indian Quote by Richard M. Nixon

The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their…

— Isabella Bird

The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The Indians must conform to 'the white man’s ways', peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must. They must adjust themselves to their environment,…

— Thomas Morgan U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs

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

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will…

— Andrew Jackson

The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a wonder to…

— N. Scott Momaday

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

— Russell Means

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

What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian…

— Dennis Banks

“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

Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it's labor or whether it's land from one racial group to…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr