Anthropologists Quote by Ruth Beebe Hill

All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native…

— Sherman Alexie

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

— Thaddeus Stevens

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

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

— Nelson A. Miles

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood…

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Saroo Brierley

“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

The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality.

— Cree Summer

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American…

— Joseph Bruchac

“That Native American cultures are imperiled is important and not just to Indians. It is important to everyone, or should be. When we lose…

— David Treuer