95 Quotes About Native-americans

Wherever we went, the soldiers came to kill us, And it was all our own country. It was ours already when the Wasichus made the treaty with Red Cloud, that said it would be ours is long as grass should grow and water flow. That was only eight winter’s before, and they were chasing us now because we remembered and they forgot.

...stripped of the polish, gloss, veneer and lacquer that we wear as a polite shell and call civilization, the man of your old new world would but see in us a brother; and...what remote age was that in which he lived, since which slow-growing stone has walled in his bones and crusted the treasures of his handiwork?...Your new world does not extend far beneath the grass roots, sir.

For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among themselves...so that it occurs to me that perhaps our cultures are not so different after all: the women do all the work while the men do all the talking.

Fast-tracked development often means that indigenous people and their territories get run over and their rights are not taken into consideration.

Indians don't know much uh nothin', tuh tell de truth. Else dey'd own dis country still.

Violence comes in many forms, some more subtle than others. Indigenous Peoples are not your mascots.

I know that the loss of life people on the island suffered from Hurricane Maria was not simply the result of an extreme weather event. The casualties are also the result of the colonial legacy that includes racism and years of neglect.

If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.""Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky.""A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans.

Che diritto hanno i cristiani bianchi di vantarsi del loro sapere, mentre un indiano è in grado di leggere una lingua che sarebbe troppo oscura per il più saggio di loro?