American indian Quote by Thomas Jefferson

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

— Viktor Yushchenko

We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it…

— Henry David Thoreau

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians,…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely…

— Nelson A. Miles

“Our elders, and our elders’ kin, and their kin before them, fought to keep Sunningrocks in our territory. Many of them lost their lives,…

— Erin Hunter

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

— Elizabeth Lesser

“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 whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your…

— Chief Seattle

“{Excerpt from a message from one of the Cherokee chiefs - Onitositaii, commonly known as Old Tassle} ... 'If, therefore, a bare march, or…

— John Ehle

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own…

— Chief Seattle

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they…

— Arundhati Roy