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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
When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. -- Dave Attell
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. -- Dennis Banks
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
The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy. -- John Baldacci
I'm a Native American actress. -- Julia Jones
I'm proud of my Native American heritage, -- Elizabeth Warren
Native trees are so important to our ecosystem. -- Felix Dennis
I have built my world through Native American mythology. -- Tori Amos
Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders. -- Thomas Haden Church
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. -- Aristippus
I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress. -- Rick Renzi
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. -- Toni Morrison
Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. -- Yancy Butler
Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society. -- Winona LaDuke
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. -- Alice Walker
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. -- Louise Erdrich
I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood. -- Tamara Tunie
My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies. -- Eric Balfour
The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them. -- Skeet Ulrich
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. -- Tori Amos
The Cloud-Native Enterprise is a venture capitalist creating continuous innovation powered by Cloud Foundry. -- Colin Humphreys
From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America. -- Jared Polis
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. -- Rick Renzi
During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything. -- Jacoby Ellsbury
Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. -- Russell Means
The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts. -- John Russell
I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool. -- Vince Staples
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans. -- Bob Greene
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us -- Dennis Banks
Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West. -- Dennis Banks
Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born, -- Elizabeth Warren
Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community. -- Robert Bly
I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. -- Siegfried Sassoon
You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered. -- Ivan van Sertima
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. -- Michael Tippett
Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you. -- Barack Obama
In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys). -- Daniel Brook
There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea. -- Julia Jones
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. -- Amy Bloom
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving. -- Stephen Colbert
I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history. -- Rick Renzi
Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history -- Rick Renzi
I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy. -- Duane Chapman
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. -- Alan Robinson
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. -- Daniel Kahikina Akaka
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. -- Daniel Kahikina Akaka
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
Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son". -- David L. Cohn
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. -- Virginia Madsen
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
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. -- Sherman Alexie
The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic." -- Joseph Boyden
The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. -- Diane Glancy
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. -- John Oates
The next 10 to 20 years will bring Native cultural expressions to the body of Christ that will be a tremendous blessing to many. -- Richard Twiss
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. -- Richard King
I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness. -- Gloria Steinem
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
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. -- Gloria Steinem
No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives. -- Nas
All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants. -- Jan C. Ting
They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million. -- David Letterman
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 always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. -- Kyle MacLachlan
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
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
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
Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people. -- Shane Claiborne
One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right. -- Joseph Bruchac
At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace. -- Joseph Bruchac
Native advertising covers an awful lot of stuff. In many ways, it's just an extension of what in print had been called for years an advertorial. -- Norman Pearlstine
The only people that deserve to be called Americans are Native Americans, otherwise, I'm a Latino American, you know.... Anybody else... well where did you come from? -- Cristian Machado
Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically. -- Rick Renzi
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, -- Maria Tallchief
[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans. -- Steven Knight
Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose. -- Eddie Izzard
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel? -- Jared Diamond
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. -- Sherman Alexie
Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state. -- Rick Renzi
You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave. -- Dylan Brody
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes. -- Terri Windling
For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain. -- Dan Maffei
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Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. -- Robbie Robertson
America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans. -- Paula Gunn Allen
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. -- Jared Diamond
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. -- Jared Diamond
It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices... -- Joseph Bruchac
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package. -- Chaske Spencer
The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it. -- Joel Hodgson
Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would? -- Elizabeth Warren
For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury. -- Suzan Shown Harjo
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans. -- Philipp Meyer
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field. -- Christopher Moore
Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont. -- Lady Bird Johnson
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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! -- Eddie Izzard
I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend! -- Jamaica Kincaid
Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.' -- Michael Franti
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else. -- Isabel Wilkerson
In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest. -- Terri Windling
One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. -- Sebastian Junger
Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable. -- Rhys Ifans
My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family. -- Tamara Tunie
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share. -- Lisa Bonet
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films. -- Beau Bridges
I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards. -- Valerie June
Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son. -- William Upski Wimsatt
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans. -- Rick Renzi
Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do. -- Robbie Robertson
I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women. -- Alice Walker
I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die? -- Duane Chapman
"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native. -- Gertrude Stein
Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down. -- Bill Burr
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. -- Jared Diamond
I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people. -- Richelle Mead

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