Quotes about Native americans

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Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen? — Ian Frazier, On the Rez
A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with — Benjamin Franklin, Remarks Concerning the Savages
Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover tha — Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
Om-nipotent, Om-nipresent, Om-niscient, Omall is wholly undivided, instructed the physicist, David Bohmthe enfolded and — Jarett Sabirsh, Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem
When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw some of those India — William Faulkner, Collected Stories
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered — Chief Seattle, The Chief Seattle's Speech
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it — Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting. — Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
That is the way a white man remembers a battle. So many soldiers here, so many there. Such a captain here. Such a lieute — Will Henry
The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly n — Bridges McCall
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look a — Henry Ford
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of t — George Bernard Shaw
...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had — Margaret Atwood, Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back — Sherman Alexie, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
With the snow piling up outside, the warm dry cabin hidden in its fold of the mountain felt like a safe haven indeed, th — Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
It was never the poverty that deterred me, never the disease, unsanitary conditions, bugs or garbage, those things were — Little White Bird, The Dark Horse Speaks
That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mi — Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Each and every Indian, man or woman, child or Elder, is a spirit-warrior. — Leonard Peltier
Another Chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved fi — Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in their lives. She al — Sherman Alexie, Indian Killer