American Indian Quotes

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.

Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!

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.

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.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.

Sixty percent of the vegetables you see in the supermarkets came from the American Indians. They also gave us aspirin and quinine. And their model of government parallels our Senate. But their women elected the chiefs, and impeached them.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

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.

Being Indian-American, I have tremendous potential to grow facial hair.

I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.