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?
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Thanksgiving is not an anachronism whose time is past. It is much more than a holiday to celebrate a meal shared between the Pilgrims and Native Americans. It is a time to reflect and be thankful for what we have—not for what we cherish, desire or envy.
[Thanksgiving is] my favorite holiday, I think. It's without a doubt my favorite American Holiday. I love Christmastime, Chanuka etc. But Thanksgiving is as close as we get to a nationalist holiday in America (a country where nationalism as a concept doesn't really fit). Thanksgiving's roots are pre…
Chief Running Water: I hate to break this to you, but your mother is what we Native Americans call 'bear with wiiiide canyon.' Cartman: Huh? Chief Running Water: She is 'doe who cannot keep legs together.' Cartman: What? Chief Running Water: Your mom's a slut. Cartman: Hey!
What has happened to this place I don’t recognize it anymore It used to be so fun and special What is life worth living for The dream is dead Our land is gone There’s a hole in my heart And I can’t go on There are too many minorities (minorities) At my water park (my water park) This was our land, o…
That is I never say that I kill an Indian without I get his scalp. I sent two scalps east to the Sentennial [sic] and have one on the boat with me that I killed one week ago yestarday [sic]. But it came near being my last. for the indians [sic] had the first shot and tore a small piece out of my sid…
I have just returned from a big hunt. The Indians in this country are on the war path.
The White Man has taken most of our land. He has paid us nothing for it. He has destroyed or driven away the game that was our meat. In 1868 he arranged to build through the Indians' land a road on which ran iron horses that ate wood and breathed fire and smoke. We agreed. This road was only as wide…
I am and always have been a friend of the Indian. I have always sympathized with him in his struggle to hold the country that was his by right of birth. But I have always held that in such a country as America the march of civilization was inevitable, and that sooner or later the men who lived in ro…
In concluding, I want to express the hope that the dealings of this Government of ours with the Indians will always be just and fair. They were the inheritors of the land that we live in. They were not capable of developing it, or of really appreciating its possibilities, but they owned it when the…
We do live in a racist country. We have to evolve and have to realize that truth and reconciliation is here, too—it’s not only in South Africa or Cambodia. Young people have to learn what happened in our history, and we need people to know that we’re walking on the boards of genocide. This is a plac…
[T]his condition of being treated as children we want to have nothing to do with…the majority of the Omahas are as competent as the same number of white people.
From the outset the work of an Indian girl is plain before her.…We who are educated have to be pioneers of Indian civilization. We have to prepare our people to live in the white man's way, to use the white man's books, and to use his laws if you will only give them to us…the shores of success can o…
We who are educated have to be pioneers of Indian civilization. The white people have reached a high standard of civilization, but how many years has it taken them? We are only beginning; so do not try to put us down, but help us to climb higher. Give us a chance.
You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now, my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations; your people will wear cardigans and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the roadside; you will play golf and enjoy hot hors d'oeuvres. My people will have pa…
To the Indians here I want to say a word of welcome. In my regiment I had a good many Indians. They were good enough to fight and to die, and they are good enough to have me treat them exactly as squarely as any white man. There are many problems in connection with them. We must save them from corru…
Just a reminder last year on Thanksgiving that Natives were being tortured with dogs, illegal scare tactics, being run over by angry white ppl all to protect our water and this year on Thanksgiving they are now cleaning up 200,000 gallon oil spill on a South Dakota reservation.
I once went to a Native American restaurant but was turned away. They told me it was reservation only.
I'm sympathetic insofar as I think the 'cultural appropriation' critique has often gone too far. But what needs to be known is that African-American artists have created incredible, magical intellectual property -- only to have it monetized by white people, while the black artist gets nothing. That'…
[Cultural] appropriation suggests theft, and a process analogous to the seizure of land or artifacts. In the case of culture, however, what is called appropriation is not theft but messy interaction. Writers and artists necessarily engage with the experiences of others. Nobody owns a culture, but ev…