“Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.”
Beau Bridges
“So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!”
Eddie Izzard
“It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.”
Eric Hoffer
“It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.”
Jared Diamond
“Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.”
“We talked with Native Americans whose elders passed down oral history for thousands of years, and they said they had never seen this,”
John McCain
“Do you wish to imprison the Native Americans in a re-invented primitive culture?”
John McCarthy
