(41 quotes found)
“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.”
Jared Diamond
“Do you wish to imprison the Native Americans in a re-invented primitive culture?”
John McCarthy
“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.”
“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
“No wiser or finer man lives than the one who understands that this earth is not to be owned. It is to be admired and cared for. We should be honored to call ourselves gardeners, not conquerors and owners.”
Bobby W. Miller
“I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.”
Lynn Williams
“In my dream, the eagle was showing me how life for Native Americans used to be and some things that Native people should do to be healthy once again.”
Georgia Perez
“I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.”
Bob Greene
“We think of (Salem) as urban, but you can piece together how Native Americans would see the valley.”
Sharon Rose
“The art of Native Americans is integrated into the functional. Many times the designs have symbolic or even magical meanings.”
Peter Jacobs
