America Quote by Vine Deloria Jr

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'

— Anonymous

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for…

— Luther Standing Bear

Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to…

— Standing Bear

“The white race increasingly deserves the name given by the American Indians: palefaces.”

— Emil M. Cioran

We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

— John Trudell

“White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.”

— Derrick Jensen

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

— Samuel P. Huntington

We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.

— Mahatma Gandhi

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

— Jared Polis

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came…

— Chief Joseph

“The white men had basically crapped all over the only race that could call itself indigenous in America.”

— David Baldacci

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

— B. R. Ambedkar