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They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million.

— David Letterman

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom…

— Joe Baca

If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life…

— Tania Major

Indigenous people made huge contributions to this country. The biggest is in sharing the land and resources. People need to see that, understand that.…

— Perry Bellegarde

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.

— Steve Israel

There are probably 400 to 500 people, water protectors, north of the 1889 boundary, that was the result of an illegal annexation of treaty…

— Chase Iron Eyes

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

— Malcolm Fraser

“Confusing the matter is the fact that there are three often-conflicting definitions at play: American Indians are the only people defined as an ethnic…

— Mark Edwin Miller

On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this…

— Ken Salazar

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

The estimated 11 or so million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States. This is what Mr. [Donald ] Trump promised back in November.

— Jake Tapper

“The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin