Indian American Quotes
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Indian American Quotes & Sayings
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To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.
— Aarti Sequeira
Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.
— Chief Dan George
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
— Seneca The Younger
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.
— Bobby Jindal
The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.
— Skeet Ulrich
I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.
— Michael Steger
I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.
— Henry David Thoreau
For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.
— Paula Gunn Allen
American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.
— Anthony F. C. Wallace
When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!
— Russell Means
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
— D.H. Lawrence
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
— Russell Means
This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.
— Russell Means
It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.
— Mark Kurlansky
West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.
— Melanie Fiona
I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!
— Will Rogers
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
— Mourning Dove
White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.
— Ward Churchill
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
— William Tecumseh Sherman
You said you like it on top. I spent all day imagining it.
— Denise Grover Swank
Before you judge a person you have to walk in their moccasins and live in their lodge for a month.
— Buddy Hannah
But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.
— John Trudell
The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land ... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.
— Chief Joseph
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.
— Henry David Thoreau
I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.
— N. Scott Momaday
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 oppressed.
— S. Alice Callahan
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life ...
— Paula Gunn Allen
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
— Rachel Blanchard
The 'Righteous' are mightier than 'God.
— Shivish
Next time! In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?
— Helen Hunt Jackson
See how long and bold my life line is? It's an indication of my sexual prowess.
— Denise Grover Swank
I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.
— Henry David Thoreau
Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.
— George Washington
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
— Charles Eastman
The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.
— Chief Seattle
This is my love line ... It says an incredibly sexy, but totally infuriating redheaded woman with barge into my life and drive me insane.
— Denise Grover Swank
My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.
— Maya Angelou
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I'm going to undress you slowly so I can take in every inch of your perfect body. Holy shit, he played dirty. — Denise Grover Swank
I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.
— Christian Kane
The idea that "all men are created equal" is a gift to the world from the American Indian.
— Robert M. Pirsig
The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.
— Suzy Menkes
Who can declare that money is not a power which rulers of the world cannot withstand?
— S. Alice Callahan
In Indian Country," he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning - and more will.
— Gloria Steinem
The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus. The Indian goes into his tipi and talks with Jesus.
— Quanah Parker
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.
— George W. Bush
I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.
— Henry David Thoreau
I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
