Chaske Spencer Quotes

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

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.

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.

This land was our land; it was taken from us illegally …. John Smith did not bring a civilization here. There was already civilization here…. We should have burned the boat and killed them. all.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, it has always stood for what is best and worst about the history of the United States.

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.

In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from.

Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers.

I'm a Native American actress.