Quotes and Sayings about Native Americans

 

 

"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
(Related: Wisdom, Americans, Native Americans, Respect)

"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
(Related: History, Americans, Country, Native Americans)

"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
(Related: Americans, Animals, Defeat, Military, Native Americans, Troops, Weapons)

"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
(Related: Americans, Native Americans, Old, World)

"I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans."
- Bob Greene
(Related: Love, Food, Americans, Native Americans)

"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Love, America, Americans, Hate, Native Americans, Needs)

"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
(Related: Government, American, Americans, Native Americans, President, Years)

"Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward."
- Robert Patterson
(Related: People, Americans, Native Americans)

"The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations."
- Rick Renzi
(Related: Home, Americans, Native Americans, Ownership)

"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
(Related: Americans, Care, Faces, Healthcare, Native Americans, State)

"I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress."
- Rick Renzi
(Related: Americans, Congress, Native Americans)

"The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts."
- John Russell
(Related: Negative, Americans, Name, Native Americans)