Wounded Knee happened because Indian people wanted to survive as Indians and there wasn't any way to survive,
so we made a stand and made a statement, but now Indian people are beginning to rebound,
rebound according to their [concept of] "Beauty." And that's really what's necessary to understand: Indian people have to become free again.

- Russell Means
 

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans,
in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

- Jared Diamond
 

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic:
The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

- Stewart L Udall
 

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