"This country was a lot better off when……" — Vine Deloria, Jr.
"This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it."
More American Indian Quotes
- In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a… — Joe Biden
- In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country:… — H. Rap Brown
- The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is… — Chief Joseph
- We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter… — Chief Joseph
- I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good… — Chief Joseph
- All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think… — Sherman Alexie
- Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed… — Paula Gunn Allen
- What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has… — Dennis Banks
- Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in… — Black Elk
- I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it… — Michael Dorris
- It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. — Louise Erdrich
- There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the… — Unknown Author