Indian Reservations Quotes

• It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.

  Sherman Alexie

  Moving, Were Meant To Be, Prison

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.192, Random House

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• The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.

  Nelson A. Miles

  White, People, United States

  Nelson A. Miles (1985). “Nelson A. Miles: A Documentary Biography of His Military Career, 1861-1903”, Arthur H Clark

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• My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Reality, Responsible

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• The only good Indian is a dead Indian

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Peace, War, Native American Indian

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• While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms against racial minorities and political dissidents in the Soviet Union, the facts that the U.S. Army's solution to the 'Indian Problem' was the prototype for the Nazi 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem' and that the North American Indian Reservation was the model for the twentieth century gulag and concentration camp, are conveniently overlooked.

  Jonathan Ott

  Stress, School, Army

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• In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, United States, Illegal

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, www.guernicamag.com. ugust 15, 2011.

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• You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

  Alex Cox

  Motorcycle, Reservations, Policemen

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

  Denise Juneau

  Mom, Teacher, Children

  "2012 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by The Honorable Denise Juneau". Reuters, September 05, 2012.

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