Apathy Quote by Taylor Sheridan

I lived in the reservations until I was 11, when we moved for lack of economic opportunities.

— Lily Gladstone

One of the first things people think of when they think of Native Americans is reservations. We didn't have any idea what that was.…

— Kelvin Sampson

I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the…

— Chaske Spencer

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each…

— James Welch

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

— Buffalo Bill

Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession was also…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

On my reservation, we had one of the most abundant fisheries in the world and hundreds of thousands of acres of wild rice beds.…

— Winona LaDuke

It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed…

— Sherman Alexie

Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of…

— Bryan Fischer

If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains,…

— George Armstrong Custer

Wayne: I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them … the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it…

— John Wayne

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were…

— James Welch