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“Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?”

“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said Allah God has come to fight the battle of justice for the Black man and woman of America and it is He who is plaguing America with the disasters of unusual rain, hail, snow, and soon earthquakes. So if the Black man and woman and the Native Americans, or Indians, are not in the equation of those running for the high office of the Presidency of the United States, if we are not in the equation for justice, then none of these candidates can save America from the Wrath of Allah (God).”

“So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the world, you become just the opposite. You end up in college having to apologize for the fact that you no longer speak your native language.”

World Persons Ends Facts Speak Language College Becoming Opposites Native Apologizing Multicultural Knowledge Of The World Native Language

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.”

Made Dream Running Born Wonder Rich Impossible Tree Possibility Losing Fingers Native Grandmother American Dream Terrified Affirmation Grandchildren Swedish Hacked Great Grandchildren

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.”

Looks Culture Native Native American Elders American Culture Native American Culture

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“Being Indian is an attitude, a state of mind, a way of being in harmony with all things and all beings. It is allowing the heart to be the distributor of energy on this planet; to allow feelings and sensitivities to determine where energy goes; bringing aliveness up from the Earth and from the Sky, putting it in and giving it out from the heart.”

Way Giving Mind Heart States Feelings Earth Energy Attitude Sky Planets All Things Harmony Determine Indian Native Allowing State Of Mind Native American Sensitivity Distributors

Author:Brooke Medicine Eagle

“Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.”

People Humans Feelings Political Sports Groups Benefits Racism Treats Native Native American Political Correctness Correctness Hurtful Bruised Mascots Short People

Author:Dave Zirin

“The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia.”

People Ifs Firsts America Used Land Empty Deny Invisible Defined Native Wilderness Occupation Native American Arrivals Columbus

Author:Vandana Shiva

“When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.”

Problem Culture Social Issues Economic Movement Survival Roots Inequality Native Wilderness Native American Ecology Economic Problems Social Inequality

Author:Vandana Shiva

“Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it.”

“If you look at the statistics regarding Native Americans, you will see that most of the tribes since the 70s have improved their economic situation in some form. And this has been brought about by their aggressive assertion of their sovereign treaty rights.”

Ifs Looks Has Beens Form Situation Rights Economic Native Statistics Aggressive Native American Sovereign Tribes Assertion Treaties

Author:Leonard Peltier

“There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy that you mentioned is and has become a recipe for disaster in the long term, because the response to social and environmental problems has been responded to with a drug mentality, which is to say, anything for the quick fix. And it has trained the public to always believe they are one purchase away from happiness.”

“United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected.”

“I'm sure you're gonna be taught, if you haven't already, that the people that were here, the Native Americans were beautiful, they were wonderful, they were at one with nature, and these evil white Europeans like Columbus came in and killed them and took them, imprisoned them, stole what was theirs, took it for ourselves.”

People Ifs Beautiful Evil White Wonderful Havens Taught Native Native American Columbus One With Nature

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.”

People Looks Book Names Prayer Projects Remembered Native Native American

Author:Shane Claiborne

“Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”

“I once said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." When Bobby Jindal entered the Republican campaign, my comment should have been covered again, more prominently. I mean, Jindal is not Native American, he's a real Indian.”

Should Mean Has Beens Said Real Republican Should Have Campaigns Indian Native Covered Comment Native American Accents Eleven Should Have Been Donuts Dunkin Donuts

Author:Joe Biden

“All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.”

“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.”

“From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.”

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Author:Chief Joseph

“I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.”

“If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.”

“Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are minorities, Native Americans, immigrants, and women living in poverty and who speak little or no English.”

Littles Suffering Speak Poverty Risk Population Native Minorities Immigrants Affected Prime Pregnant Native American Complication Pregnant Women

Author:Robin Lim

“Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere.”

Climate Climate Change Productions Oil Forests Burning Smoke Atmosphere Native Quantity Immense Palms Removal Timber Deforestation Oil Production Palm Oil

Author:Katie Cleary

“People get tired of talking about American exceptionalism, but I think this is an extraordinary thing about the United States, that we are a nation of immigrants, first of all, that is built upon a pluralistic society of native people that were here to begin with. The issue of diversity is really with us from the beginning.”

People Thinking Firsts States Nations United Talking United States Issues Diversity Built Tired Extraordinary Native Immigrants Extraordinary Things Exceptionalism American Exceptionalism

Author:Diana L. Eck

“I can tell you about Hillary Clinton's heart. This is a woman, who, after law school, went down to my native South. She went down, after graduating from Yale Law School, to help poor kids, to help disabled kids.”

Heart I Can Helping Kids School Law Poor Clinton South Native Graduates Disabled Law School Yale Help The Poor

Author:Donna Brazile

“The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.”

Life Use Happiness Success Truth Is Capacity This Life Native Congratulations Greatest Success

Book:Love or Perish [Expanded Edition]

Source: Love or Perish [Expanded Edition]

“The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that. The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal. For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.”

Knows Doe Animal Know How Air Wings Instance Indian Native Relative Native American Prey Eagles Hawks Lament Sly Coyotes

Book:The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt

Source: The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt

“I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.”

Life Inspirational I Can Feelings Sun Tree Wind Indian Native Native American Babe Good Feeling

Author:Geronimo

“When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms. She also taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom, and protection. We never prayed against any person, but if we had aught against any individual we ourselves took vengeance. We were taught that Usen does not care for the petty quarrels of men.”

Source: Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett

“That is the beauty when I discovered the label 'Touched With Fire.' That book defined it for me, I could be that. And we just happen to be living in one age of society that put these various labels on the condition. In Aristotle's time, it was the 'inspired state.' In the Native American cultures, you were the shaman. Labels and language creates realities, even if they are false.”

Ifs Book States Reality Happens Age Culture Language Fire Conditions Inspired Various Defined Labels Native Touched Native American American Culture Native American Culture

Author:Paul Dalio

“An herbal medicine made from a plant native to Asia is about to be banned in the U.S. It's known as either kratom or kratom, and forms of it are sold in shops and on the internet. In the next few weeks, kratom is set to be classified as a Schedule I drug. That puts it in the same category with marijuana and heroin.”

Made Form Next Known Week Internet Drug Medicine Plant Shops Native Categories Marijuana Schedules Asia Heroin Banned Herbal Medicine

Author:Audie Cornish

“Right to a speedy jury trial and so on and so forth. But what do they mean by 'person'? It certainly didn't mean individuals with flesh and blood like Native Americans who weren't persons, they don't have any rights.”

Mean Persons Individual Rights Blood Flesh Trials Native Native American Jury Flesh And Blood

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are really female because the writer is a woman. I've learned to let that go.”

People Ifs Kind Character Female Assuming I've Learned Native

Author:Eden Robinson

“I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.”

“I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe triple them up. You put, and have them choose, let's say 11 different Native American cultures. Maybe you give them a list of 15 and they choose 11 of those 15 so that they have some choice in the matter.”

Ifs Giving Different Matter Choices Culture Courses Levels Students Lists Grades Native Native American American History American Culture Workshops Native American Culture

Author:James W. Loewen

“You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c. 13,000 B.P. or approximately 13,000 Before the Present. Resettled.” Maybe we could say even, “Resettled by whites,” Or, “Resettled anyway, 1686.” It would have a different impact. And of course it would help explain why the town is called Greenfield, because it was a green field and the fields were left by Native people who had already been farming them.”

People Ifs Firsts Said Different Helping Courses Left Fields Towns Green Impact Native Farming Being Cool Massachusetts Green Fields

Author:James W. Loewen

“In my normal way of doing things, there's a little bit of 'going native' that takes place, where you're in a world long enough, you can't really help but start to see things in a nuanced, more humanistic way. Just because you're with people and you start to in general slightly like the people you're with.”

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Author:Louis Theroux

“I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy. The monarch offers identity across generations, and is a part of these roots and this native country.”

People Believe Country I Believe Generations Identity Offers Advantage Roots Forgotten Native Monarchy Monarchs Native Country

Author:Margrethe II of Denmark

“Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's no longer "in the closet," as it were. It's part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature. The same questions are there in Native American languages, they're there in native Canadian languages, they're there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish. So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.”

Writing Problem School Culture Literature Language Issues Raised Discussion Native Phenomenon Classroom Native American Closets Topics Conferences Marginalized American Language

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.”

Ifs Thinking Done Amount Slavery Native Genocide Native American Crap

Author:Bill Burr

“There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.”

World Miracle Native Asia Midwesterners

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru with 800 or 900 or so native people from the area. So that idea was wild but the way it was executed was prudent. Nobody was ever hurt and when it became clear that we had to be more secure with the posts that would hold the ship, I spent 12 days having a post built that would have withstood the force of 10 times the weight of my ship.”

People Way Ideas Bigs Moving Force Hurt Clear Mountain Built Areas Aspect Weight Ships Secure Posts Native Jungle Prudent Peru Daredevil

Author:Werner Herzog

“In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.”

“I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.”

Saws Tree Calling Native Native American

Author:Vince Staples

“Native advertising covers an awful lot of stuff. In many ways, it's just an extension of what in print had been called for years an advertorial.”

Way Years Stuff Advertising Awful Native Print Extensions

Author:Norman Pearlstine

“Yes, there may be some convergence to what you see on a screen that's different from the way you will experience a magazine in your hand, but there are lots of ways you can signal differences. Where native advertising and these other things get tricky is when the consumer can't tell the difference between edit and advertising.”

Way May Different Hands Differences Screens Advertising Magazines Consumers Native Signals Tricky Edits Convergence

Author:Norman Pearlstine

“The Navajo Generating Station in Page, for example, employs hundreds of people, mostly Native Americans, and provides nearly all of the power for the Central Arizona Project. That means our entire state has a big stake in the energy production and economic stability of these plants.”

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Author:Ann Kirkpatrick

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