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Native Americans are also denoted as American Indians and the indigenous people of the United States.
They were the land’s original people who lived in America for more than 15000 years before European voyagers found America in the early 16th century.
According to the U.S census data, currently, 5 million Native Americans live in the United States and adjoining Canada.
When the Europeans landed on American soil, it is believed that around 50 million indigenous first Americans were thriving in the region.
Oppression, slavery, and exposure to European disease made them shrink today to around 5 million. Read the history.com blog post if you want to read in detail about native American history.
Native American Indians are not to be misunderstood as the Indians who migrated to America for work and education from the Asian country India.
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Best American Indian Quotes and Sayings
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People tend to forget that in our country, we’d pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.– Amy Bloom
Everyone who’s born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.– Russell Means
I admire American Indians so much. They so proud of their culture. if you insult their culture, they’ll sue you. They will sue you and everybody in your family.– George Lopez
American Indians were the original rulers and caretakers of the vast territory that is today the United States.– Sharon O’Brien
Europeans considered Indians ‘children of nature’ or ‘savage beasts.’– Sharon O’Brien
Regardless of outside pressures the Indians have remained Indians, and they always will.– Bertha Pauline Dutton
As with many Native American tribes, the Cherokee held their own religious and tribal beliefs and customs. Many of these traditions remain important to the Cherokee today. There were rituals, ceremonies, and stories devoted to every aspect of life.– Cassie M. Lawton
American Indian traditional values of sharing, cooperation, noninterference, being, family and tribe, harmony with nature, a time orientation toward living in the present.– J. T. Garrett
The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.– Mary Brave Bird
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.– White Elk
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.— Eric Hoffer
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.– Jim Yong Kim
I’m proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it’s time all us Indians felt the same way.– Loretta Lynn
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.– Joseph Bruchac
America is – and will always be – a success story. We have African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and members of other ethnic groups elected to positions inside our governments.– Markwayne Mullin
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.– Philipp Meyer
The contributions of all American Indian tribes to our national culture have been long overlooked.– Sue Rose
The advisors believed that most American Indian societies have adapted well to change when they have given anything like a fair chance to make the most of a new situation on their own terms.– The University of Arizona Press
It’s a Cherokee rose. The story is that when American soldiers were moving Indians off their land on the trail of tears the Cherokee mothers were grieving and crying so much ’cause they were losing their little ones along the way from exposure and disease and starvation.– Frank Darabont
I’ll tell you, if anyone got a raw deal it’s the American Indian. This country has a black mark on its soul for what was done to them.– John C. Richards
If war come, Red Hawk be Indian. Not can be white man. Not can be alone. Red Hawk be Indian, make strong fight.– Herb Meadow
As a matter of fact, Indians can smell white people.– James Edward Grant
West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.– Melanie Fiona
American Indian Quotes On Life
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When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose it is called a massacre.
– Chiksika
The ways in which American Indians have resisted assimilation and maintained their identity are as creative and diverse as the people themselves.
– The University of Arizona Press
Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.
– Russell Means
The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut off, but it should not be uprooted. The trees and the grass have spirits. Whatever one of such growth may be destroyed by some good Indian, his act is done in sadness and with a prayer for forgiveness because of his necessities.
– Wooden Leg
Traditional Indians know of this personal connection to the Great Mystery. Much of their daily life involved aligning themselves, in one way or another, with the powers of the Great Mystery.
– William Lyon
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
– Charles Alexander Eastman
Traditional American Indian values and attributes include a sense of humor that can only be appreciated because of living that culture and time, as is the case with other cultures of people.
– J. T. Garrett
We Indians are like an island in the middle of the river. The white man comes upon us as a flood. We crumble and fall.
Opothleyoholo
Because medicine traditions are at the very heart and core of every Indian culture, to disregard them as merely superstition is to lose sight of the basic nature of traditional American Indians.
– William Lyon
What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.
– Russell Means
There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?
– Rush Limbaugh
It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.
– Russell Means
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
– Chief Seattle
The key to American Indian values, attitudes, and behaviors is to be strong and endure while belonging to a group, while respecting nature, the elders, the family and the tribe.
– J. T. Garrett
The traditional Indian view is to accept the differences as a way of life, and that is okay.
– J. T. Garrett
This is why the old Indian still sits upon the earth instead of propping himself up and away from its life-giving forces. For him, to sit or lie upon the ground is to be able to think more deeply and to feel more keenly; he can see more clearly into the mysteries of life and come closer in kinship to other lives about him.
– Chief Luther Standing Bear
Indians seen as being very religious, yet they have no organized religion in our sense of the word.
– William Lyon
Some Indian people developed complex mythologies and religions, whereas others made do with relatively simple beliefs.
– Barry Pritzker
But the American Indian tribes that remain are proudly keeping their culture alive.
Sandy Phan
Among the North American Indians, supernatural events were a daily affair. Obviously, that’s not the problem.
– William Lyon
American Indians were the first people to live in Texas. Eventually, most American Indians were forced to leave Texas and settle on reservations in Oklahoma.
– Sandy Phan
None of the American Indians were or are red-skinned, but were either a light or a dark brown, or as fair as any Frenchman.
– Jon Manchip White
Long ago, Georgia was home to many American Indians. Some lived in the mountains. Others lived in the river valleys. They all lived in groups called tribes.
– Kelly Rodgers
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