Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.
We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
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.
Whatever their reasons, Hollywood, or the entertainment industry, is saying something about Indians. I don't see the rest of the media knocking down any doors to do that.
If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.
I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to read, and they have plenty of things to work with. The Indian has no book. He cannot read.