American indian Quote by Val Kilmer

Historically the buffalo had more influence on man than all other Plains animals combined. It was life, food, raiment, and shelter to the Indians.…

— Walter Prescott Webb

The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the…

— Ted Nugent

“Indians only needed so many implements and decorations. If a tribe drove three hundred buffalo over a cliff, they wouldn’t feel obligated to make…

— Steven Rinella

“These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency…

— William T. Sherman

Ahh, my heart fell down when I began to see dead buffalo scattered all over our beautiful country, killed and skinned, and left to…

— Pretty Shield

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the…

— John Muir

“Indians were made for film. Indians were exotic and erotic. All those feathers, all that face paint, the breast plates, the bone chokers, the…

— Thomas King

I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.

— James Cromwell

The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely…

— Richard Rodriguez

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“There is no place left for the buffalo to roam. There’s only corn, wheat, and soy. About the only animals that escaped the biotic…

— Lierre Keith