Taboo Quotes

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.

Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.

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

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.

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

I don't know whether I'm half, quarter or what. I just know I'm aboriginal.

When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things. It's your blood. It's your spirituality. And it's fighting for the Indian people.

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

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

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.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

The Indian is a human being.

Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

God made me an Indian.

... the rights of the first Americans to remain Indians while exercising their rights as Americans.

Have we, the first holders of this prosperous region, no longer a share in your history? Glad were your fathers to sit down upon the threshold of the long house. Had our forefathers spurned you from it, when the French were thundering at the opposite side to get a passage through, and drive you into the sea, whatever has been the fate of other Indians, the Iroquois might still have been a nation, and I, instead of pleading here for the privilege of living within your borders, I – might have had a country.

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

The Indians are acknowledged to have an unquestionable … right to the lands they occupy.

You cannot turn the clock back, you cannot give the island of Manhattan back to the indigenous, but on the other hand, you can ensure that the indigenous can maintain their way of life.

Indigenous lives matter.

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.