Artifice Quote by William Shirley

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

— John Lawson

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

— Robert Crumb

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern…

— Stewart Udall

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype…

— Ricky Schroder

It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come…

— Russell Means

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

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.

— Francis Parkman

“The truth is, that the European nations paid not the slightest regard to the rights of the native tribes. They treated them as mere…

— Joseph Story

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western…

— Steven Pinker

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

— Henry David Thoreau

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French…

— Adam Michnik

“Even the most traditional Indians, the ones who'd kept the old ceremonies alive in secret, either had Catholicism beaten into them in boarding school...or…

— Louise Erdrich