Timothy B. Schmit Quotes

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.

I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.

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.

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

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

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.

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.

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

I have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Native Americas: everything is Native Americans in elementary school. Do you know how many Native American dresses I've sewn, on and on; it's a full yearlong study. And then never again. As journalists, we never even cover Native Americans.

I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.

I'm a Native American actress.

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.

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

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.

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

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Millions of dollars have been expended to excavate and transport to museums the tools, weapons, and other artifacts of Indians--but scarcely a penny has been spent to save the living descendants of those who made them

The thesis of the book in your hands is that Native American history merits more than 9 pages.

I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.

I came from a family that was pretty insularly Cherokee. We kept to ourselves - the white people were there, and we were here, and it was practically a segregated kind of thing.

It's amazing to me that some kids are surprised to find out Indians are still alive.

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

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.