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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. -- Toni Morrison
When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. -- Dave Attell
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
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
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
In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. -- Winona LaDuke
Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east. -- Rebecca Solnit
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I'm a Native American actress. -- Julia Jones
I'm proud of my Native American heritage, -- Elizabeth Warren
I have built my world through Native American mythology. -- Tori Amos
Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders. -- Thomas Haden Church
I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress. -- Rick Renzi
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. -- Alice Walker
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
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. -- Tori Amos
The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them. -- Skeet Ulrich
I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything. -- Jacoby Ellsbury
During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born, -- Elizabeth Warren
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans. -- Bob Greene
Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you. -- Barack Obama
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
I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy. -- Duane Chapman
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. -- Amy Bloom
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
Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. -- Alan Robinson
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. -- Virginia Madsen
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 word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. -- Diane Glancy
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
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. -- Richard King
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that. I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. All I had was my originality. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years. -- Carlos Mencia
Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce. -- Sufjan Stevens
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think. -- Joseph Campbell
I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it? -- Hari Kondabolu
Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession. -- John Fusco
It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family. -- Rick Renzi
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government. -- Joe Baca
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. -- Stewart Udall
For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ... by God, PETA ought to advocate for the protection of every organism in the animal kingdom. -- Tom Feeney
I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders. -- Sherman Alexie
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt -- Jesse Jackson
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt. -- Jesse Jackson
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. -- David Mamet
When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.' -- Hari Kondabolu
When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century. -- Joe Posnanski
I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That all says Pacific Northwest to me. Salmon. It really only exists on the Western side of the Cascades. -- Kyle MacLachlan
I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
As you know, today was Don't Take Your Illegal Immigrant To Work Day here in Los Angeles. No, all across the nation they had a Day Without Immigrants, is what they call it. Or, as Native Americans call it, the good ol' days. -- Jay Leno
This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why. -- Marc Forgione
On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized. -- Ken Salazar
We [Native Americans] respect being human beings, but also the natural and spiritual world and I thought that came across wonderfully and I hope a lot of people get a sense of that; not to take away that we also have that warrior spirit. -- Adam Beach
I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today. -- Chaske Spencer
It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant. -- Elizabeth Kolbert
I once said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." When Bobby Jindal entered the Republican campaign, my comment should have been covered again, more prominently. I mean, Jindal is not Native American, he's a real Indian. -- Joe Biden
You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give us notations on paper saying this is what you deserve. You have to invite us to the table because America is ours, too. -- Jimmy Santiago Baca
While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for the South, the modern-day Rangers were created to help rejuvenate a defeated and demoralized U.S. imperialism after the war in Vietnam. -- Brendan Sexton III
I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans. -- Rick Yancey
I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name. I have quite a few friends who are Native Americans. And even if I didn't have Native American friends, the name of the team is disrespectful. -- Mike Carey
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. -- Sherman Alexie
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry. -- Ron Eglash
And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind. -- Newt Gingrich
If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An African American in a white world. A Jew in a Christian world. A gypsy. A Native American. A Chinese American. Let's say, you were born deprived. -- Gerald Stern
People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie! -- Chance The Rapper
The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native American has been a sleeping giant. He is awakening. The original Americans could become the evangelists who will help win America for Christ! Remember these forgotten people! -- Billy Graham
In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders. -- Wendy Kopp
I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did. -- Joanna Noelle Levesque
I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did. -- Joanna Noelle Levesque

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