Captives Quote by Stephen Vincent Benet

“She didn’t know that Indian women had more power and authority than white women, a fact detailed in captivity stories.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“(Speaking of epidemics, one of three Native American women will be raped, and on the reservations 88 percent of those rapes are by non-Native…

— Rebecca Solnit

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

— Sitting Bull

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

— Abraham Polonsky

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indianwe can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men…

— Chief Joseph

“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

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

— Henry David Thoreau

The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man…

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the…

— Chief Joseph

“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

“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

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.

— Louise Erdrich