Quotes about Native america

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Josephy visited several leading Manhattan bookstores and sadly discovered the explanation [from his agent] to be general — Bobby Bridger, Where the Tall Grass Grows: Becoming Indigenous and the Mythological Legacy of the American West
His own mother’s blood was mixed between her Lakota mother and a French trapper. His father’s family came from Scotland — A.G. Graham, Yavapai County Line: West of the Divide Book 1
Life moved, as inconstant and fickle as Wind Baby, frolicking, sleeping, weeping, but never truly still. Never solid or — Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Bone Walker
I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power, no control." — Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
I'd only seen Julius play a few times, but he had that gift, that grace, those fingers like a goddamn medicine man. One — Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state. The farm town high — Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Pulling back, like a savage carnivore at its prey, it tore a large chunk of meat rendering his left arm useless...regard — Stacy Buck, Squanto Undead: Wake the Undead Part 2
I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from t — Stacy Buck, Squanto Undead: Wake the Undead Part 2
You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know. — Stacy Buck, Squanto Undead: Wake the Undead Part 2
If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. — Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there — Sebastian Barry, Days Without End
According to court records, during the siege at Wounded Knee, more than two hundred and fifty thousand rounds were fired — Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
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 — S. Alice Callahan, Wynema: A Child of the Forest
There is no death, only a change of worlds. — Duwamish Proverb
I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accus — Red Haircrow
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench. — Chief Seattle
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. — Rick Renzi