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People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. — Amy Bloom

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered. — Ivan Van Sertima

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. — Dennis Banks

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left. — Jay Leno

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country. — Nicolas Cage

Thanks Giving.
The Indian and the White Man together.
The pageantry spoke to me of civilization. — Stephen Graham Jones

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts. — John Russell

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. — Eric Hoffer

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. — Rick Renzi

Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen? — Ian Frazier

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. — Russell Means

No telling what those men wanted ... but in these times there were white men with bloodier hands than any Indian ... — Louis L'Amour

Each and every Indian, man or woman, child or Elder, is a spirit-warrior. — Leonard Peltier

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

We're not Indians and we're not Native Americans. We're older than both concepts. We're the people, we're the human beings. — John Trudell

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans. — Beau Bridges

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face. — Jim Yong Kim

Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world. — Henry Clay

We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We've just been to the last stop of this bus. — Sergei Dovlatov

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. — Stephen Hawking

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. — Rand Paul

You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to their own indiscretions. — Violetta Botzet Luetgers

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian. — Henry Ford

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk. — Sherman Alexie

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. — Russell Means

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants. — Sherman Alexie

Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans. — Margaret Sanger

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you. — Barack Obama

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it? — Deacon Jones

Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos. — Greg Proops

I decided to write the book I wanted to read — David A. Lottes

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving. — Stephen Colbert

In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe. — Tatanka

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans. — Bob Greene

BARBARA: They're called Native Americans now, Mom.
VIOLET: Who calls them that? Who makes that decision? — Tracy Letts

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress. — Rick Renzi

What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind. — Charles C. Abbott