Ancestry Quote by Rickey Butch Walker

“…but the image of a “fatal” disappearance of the “vanishing American” allows Indian ancestry - as opposed to African American “blood” - to function…

— Alessandro Portelli

There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because…

— Joseph Bruchac

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 have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud…

— Richard M. Nixon

“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

“I advise you to be suspicious of any black American whose family does not claim a blood connection to Native Americans. That’s a clear…

— Baratunde Thurston

Indians in general are sort of thick-skinned and hard to be moved.

— Saroo Brierley

“The acknowledgement of White cowardice has driven literally tens of millions of White Americans to try to escape it by undergoing a voluntary human…

— Frazier Glenn Miller

Native American isn't blood. It is what is in the heart. The love for the land, the respect for it, those who inhabit it,…

— Anonymous

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

“In existing writings about federally recognized tribes and their engagement with tribal acknowledgment politics, a palpable theme is clear: presently recognized nations are not…

— Mark Edwin Miller