Ian Frazier Quotes

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky.

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.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

It was the tribes of the Lenni Lenape!... It was but yesterday that the children of the Lenape were masters of the world.

My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.

[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.

It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.

I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.

It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

I'm a Native American actress.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian.

I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.

I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.

November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should stop to think about our country's beginning and that the United States would not exist if not for a great deal of sacrifice, blood, and tears by Indian Tribes across the country.

I have an interest in Native American artifacts, mainly Plains Indians from the 1840s to the 1900s, and I go in and out of that. I get really into it, and then I put it down, but it's surrounding me.