Indian Tribes Quotes

• The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

  Martin Van Buren

  United States, Tribes, Stipulations

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.18

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• Las enfermedades infecciosas introducidas con los europeos, como la viruela y el sarampión, se propagaron de una tribu india a otra, mucho antes que los propios europeos, y se calcula que mataron al 95% de la población india del Nuevo Mundo.

  Jared Diamond

  Literatura, Mundo, Enfermedad

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• Tierra de oportunidades, tierra para las masas apiñadas, ¿dónde habrían estado las oportunidades sin el genocidio de esas tribus indias erizadas de la Vieja Guardia?

  Edward Hoagland

  Opportunity, Land, Tribes

  Edward Hoagland (2014). “On Nature: Selected Essays”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

  James Monroe

  Country, Lakes, Land

  James Monroe (199?). "Los escritos de James Monroe: 1817-1823".

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• Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

  Jim Costa

  Government, Wind, Political

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• ¿Qué es la vida? Es el destello de una luciérnaga en la noche. Es el aliento de un búfalo en invierno. Es la pequeña sombra que corre por la hierba y se pierde en el ocaso.

  Pata de gallo

  Vida, Cambio, Muerte

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• The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Reality, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery. You think slavery didn't exist in Africa? Even Indian tribes.

  David Duke

  Tired, Thinking, Sick

  Source: radio.foxnews.com

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• ¿Dónde están hoy los pequot? ¿Dónde están los Narragansett, los Mohican, los Pokanoket y muchas otras tribus de nuestro pueblo que una vez fueron poderosas? Se han desvanecido ante la avaricia y la opresión del Hombre Blanco, como la nieve ante un sol de verano. ¿Dejaremos que nos destruyan a nuestra vez sin luchar, renunciaremos a nuestros hogares, a nuestro país que nos legó el Gran Espíritu, a las tumbas de nuestros muertos y a todo lo que nos es querido y sagrado? Sé que gritarán conmigo: "¡Nunca! Jamás".

  Tecumseh

  Verano, País, Renunciar

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• [¿Qué es la vida? Es el destello de una luciérnaga en la noche.

  Pata de gallo

  Puesta de sol, nativo americano, luciérnaga

  "Envejecer en el mundo moderno: Selections from the Literature of Aging for Pleasure and Instruction". Libro de Clark Tibbitts, p. 222, 1957.

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• Vive tu vida de modo que el miedo a la muerte nunca pueda entrar en tu corazón.

  Tecumseh

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Fear

  "Un libro de consulta para la comunidad de religiones de la Tierra". Libro de Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Ama tu vida, perfecciona tu vida, embellece todas las cosas de tu vida.

  Tecumseh

  Love You, Nativo Americano, Perfecto

  "Un libro de consulta para la comunidad de religiones de la Tierra". Libro de Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Los niños deben aprender pronto la belleza de la generosidad. Se les enseña a dar lo que más aprecian, para que puedan saborear la felicidad de dar.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Life, Children, Native American

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• Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

  Tecumseh

  Summer, Powerful, Native American

  Quoted in Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)

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• El presidente Obama se reunió con los líderes de las tribus indias americanas y éstos honraron al presidente dándole su propio nombre indio: Running Deficits.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Names, Giving

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• Canta tu canción de muerte y muere como un héroe volviendo a casa.

  Tecumseh

  Muerte, Canción, Héroe

  "Un libro de consulta para la comunidad de religiones de la Tierra". Libro de Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Character, Men, Broken

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law" by R.J. Rushdoony, (p. 203), 1973.

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• No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Morning, Block, Ice

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• For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Regulation, Tribes, Doe

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.524

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• This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation, of Indian tribes becoming what our courts have come to refer to as quasi-sovereign domestic dependent nations. Over the years the relationship has flourished, grown, and evolved into a vibrant partnership in which over 500 tribal governments stand shoulder to shoulder with the other governmental units that form our Republic.

  George H. W. Bush

  Independent, Years, Government

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• Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes and tribal members, this means that the authority of tribal governments must be accorded the respect and support to which they are entitled under the law. It means that American Indian children and youth must be provided a solid education and the opportunity to go on to college. It means that more must be done to stimulate tribal economies, create jobs, and increase economic opportunities.

  William J. Clinton

  Trabajo, Niños, Media

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• We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good.

  John McCain

  Years, Government, Tribes

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• It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people.

  Andrew Jackson

  Derechos, Gobierno, Personas

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.221, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian tribes from getting casinos [on screen: 'Thou Shalt Not Compete'] and bribe congressmen in the process. Know what I call that? I call that business as usual in Washington. [on screen: 'Screwing Indians']

  Stephen Colbert

  Christian, Trying, Charity

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