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A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.

— Ezra Stiles

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✓Similar Perspectives

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

— Ezra Stiles

Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

— John Hanning Speke

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

— Jared Polis

Indians are usually seen as capsulized: limited to one environment, with the illusion of stability in that environment. But Indians have been engaged all over the world for centuries, in Europe, even in Asia.

— Gerald Vizenor

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

— Joe Baca

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

— Melanie Fiona

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

— Amartya Sen

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

— Joseph Bruchac

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

— Russell Means

✗Opposing Perspectives

America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

— Narendra Modi