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native-american roots issues
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots. Vandana Shiva
native-american gun steel
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel? Jared Diamond
native-american gun land
The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is. Danny Glover
native-american humor leaving
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. Ambrose Bierce
native-american world noise
making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world. Robbie Robertson
native-american writing ironic
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. Sherman Alexie
native-american wind people
A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people. Sitting Bull
native-american people made
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else. Isabel Wilkerson
native-american apaches born
I was born where there were no enclosures. Geronimo