American Indian Quotes
American Indian Quote of the day
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.
What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.
Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.
I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.
White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.
Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.
Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a... you're a... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity.
I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that test against anyone at anytime, anywhere.
I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.
Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
President Obama met with leaders of the American Indian tribes and they honored the president by giving him his own Indian name: Running Deficits.
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.
I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?
To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.
Who can declare that money is not a power which rulers of the world cannot withstand?
I'm going to undress you slowly so I can take in every inch of your perfect body. Holy shit, he played dirty.
No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.
There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men.
The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.
