American people Quote by Studs Terkel

Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was…

— Robert Bringhurst

“Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows…

— Daniel Hill

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

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

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same…

— Serj Tankian

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“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

What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in…

— Boyd Rice

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

— Ivan van Sertima

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice…

— Joseph Bruchac

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all…

— Chaske Spencer

What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian…

— Dennis Banks