Indian Reservation Quotes

#1. 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

#2. At Kayenta we were told that the entire Navajo Indian reservation was dry; you couldn't get a drop of alcohol anywhere. Not with dinner,but also not at the supermarket. "It's like Iran," Caroline said, taking a sip of her Coke. "But right in the middle of America.

Herman Koch

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

Alex Cox

#4. FATBACK'S DEAD" The words on the slip of paper struck me like a blow. "Fatback's dead." It was not just the news itself, though the words cut deep. It was the very fact of the note, stuck on my windshield on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota,

Kent Nerburn

#5. 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

#6. I declare the Mountain besieged. You shall not depart from it, until you call on your side for a truce and a parley. We will bear no weapons against you, but we leave you to your gold. You may eat that, if you will!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. Rayne, why is it you feel the need to argue with every single thing I say?"
"Because every single thing you say is usually stupid and ridiculous.

Mari Mancusi

#8. God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

Sitting Bull

#9. The reign of imagology begins where history ends

Milan Kundera

#10. Ever since I was a little girl, I've always enjoyed feeling afraid. I think it is the most delicious feeling there is

Domingos Monteiro

#11. It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

Lewis Carroll

#12. When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things. It's your blood. It's your spirituality. And it's fighting for the Indian people.

Winona LaDuke

#13. As followers of Jesus, we must look beyond people, things, and circumstances to meet our needs. All of these are unstable and inadequate, and if we depend on them, we will fail.

Kenneth D. Boa

#14. I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

Adam McKay

#15. If I were an Indian ... I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.

George Armstrong Custer

#16. Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

Warren Farrell

#17. Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other. It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only a part-time job. And it didn't pay well at all.

Sherman Alexie

#18. The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#19. To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Mary Brave Bird

#20. On a reservation, Indian men who abandon their children are treated worse than white fathers who do the same thing. It's because white men have been doing that forever and Indian men have just learned how. That's how assimilation can work.

Sherman Alexie

#21. When he saw the River again he knew it at once. He should have; it was now ineradicably a part of his past, his life; it would be a part of what he would bequeath, if that were in store for him.

William Faulkner

#22. You can't teach at our school if you don't live in the compound. It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors.

Sherman Alexie

#23. Once he paused near a small stream to watch a dipper bob up and down on a rock. He saw a school of trout lurking in a shady place where a branch hung low on the water. No amount of seeing ever made nature old to him, and he was conscious of every movement and sound.

Louis L'Amour

#24. I was married, a mom, and a career woman - the holy trinity of women in the twenty-first century. The three expressions were truly distinct, but the unity of them created the essence. I must confess I felt in control, much more than I felt blessed.

Sharon Nir

#25. You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

Moby

#26. We're friends because when girls - women - are alone in this world, they're easier to pick off

Sarah Nicole Lemon

#27. If you were to second guess your decision to book some time to visit an Indian community, that would be a reservation reservation reservation.

Brian Regan

#28. By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.

Louise Erdrich

#29. The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.

Donald Miller