Quotes about Indigenous Tribes

Tom Tancredo

It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name of Christianity and Capitalism.

H. L. Mencken

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.

Dian Fossey

The Parc des Volcans in Rwanda, where I conduct most of my studies, is heavily infested with poachers and herdsmen, whose cattle graze right through my camp area. Park boundaries have no meaning to these tribesmen.

Elias Cornelius Boudinot

We now discovered the Shores crowded with thousands of People––Men Women & Children––May I may venture to say Tens of Thousands; From the Fort to the Place of Landing altho’ near half a Mile, you could see little else along the Shores-- -in the Streets and on Board every Vessel, but Heads standing as thick as Ears of corn before the Harvest-

He was part of the Congressional Delegation that had been appointed to welcome the newly elected first President George Washington to New York City, then the first capitol of the nation. The delegation met Washington on the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River and escorted him with a large flotilla of official and unofficial boats across the Hudson River to the Manhattan shoreline where this huge crowd had gathered. The tremendous crowd worried some of the Congress who thought there might be too much respect and obedience to the President—that he might be viewed as a monarch or worse, view himself as one. The authority and respect paid to the president was in political dispute for the first three presidential terms until Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams and the Federalists.

John Barrow

There is perhaps no nation on earth…that produces so fine a race of men as the Kaffers.

“Kaffers” were the Blacks that Migrated to South Africa from the north.

Che Guevara

The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.

Sixto Rodriguez

I learned that South Africa is a beautiful country with gorgeous people, and I got to see it from a different perspective than most people do.

Henry Golding

I was born in the jungles of Borneo.

Dennis Prager

Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples.

Tecumseh

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

Indigenous Tribes Quotes