Aboriginals Quote by White Thunder

“Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere.”

— Tommy Orange

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

— Paula Gunn Allen

“There is room on this land for all of us and there must also be, after centuries of struggle, room for justice for Indigenous…

— Arthur Manuel

“The Indian makes a good citizen, a good farmer, a good soldier. He is a real American, and all those of us who have…

— William F. Cody

“The White Man has taken most of our land. He has paid us nothing for it. He has destroyed or driven away the game…

— William F. Cody

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our…

— Mary Brave Bird

“For millennia, Native Americans have had a relationship with the land that encompasses respect and appreciation for all it provides.”

— Deborah Kesten

“If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty…

— Anonymous

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

“How are we to become native to this land?" (as quoted in Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine)”

— Paul Shepard

“Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows…

— Daniel Hill