Believe Quote by Richard Rodriguez

It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed…

— Sherman Alexie

The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new life in…

— Richard Rodriguez

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

— Buffalo Bill

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why…

— Dee Brown

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible…

— John Lawson

The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the…

— Ted Nugent

The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from…

— Arthur Miller

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern…

— Stewart Udall

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being destroyed bit…

— Mary Crow Dog

“It was the Indian manner to vanish into the landscape, not to stand out against it. The Hopi villages that were set upon rock…

— Willa Cather