American Indian Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

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.