Indians Quote by Sebastian Barry

“They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in the process.…

— Michael Crichton

“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 not long until it became manifest that I would have to either give up the Indians or lose my standing with the…

— Daniel Webster Jones

“The White Man has taken most of our land. He has paid us nothing for it. He has destroyed or driven away the game…

— William F. Cody

“If God really loved Indians, he would have made us white people.”

— Sherman Alexie

“The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told that they…

— Isak Dinesen

“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as…

— James W. Loewen

“They came with a Bible and their religion- stole our land, crushed our spirit... and now tell us we should be thankful to the…

— George Washington

“In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. There the wild animals wandered and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The first instance of slave trading and slave labor developed in the New World involved, racially, not the Negro but the Indian. The Indians…

— Eric Williams

History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like,…

— Mario Van Peebles

“The Indians must conform to 'the white man’s ways', peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must. They must adjust themselves to their environment,…

— Thomas Morgan U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs