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And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

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.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.