Ancestor Quote by Richard Thornton

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

— Henry Paulson

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.

— Eric Balfour

Native American people have been all over the world. One example I use is that I met a Blackfeet man in Vienna. He was…

— Lily Gladstone

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same…

— Serj Tankian

People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of…

— Diana L. Eck

People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here.…

— Isabel Allende

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

— Alan Robinson

“Where would the would-be “purists” draw the line between native and alien elements? This whole planet was altered by the hand of man. A…

— Kenn Kaufman

Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is,…

— Thomas Kuhn

“the European story is one in which the movement of people is inherent. Even though we have national identities, and pride and traditions that…

— Adam Rutherford

My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of white Americans…

— Alex Wagner

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt