Tribes Quotes

Tribal sovereignty means that, it`s sovereign. You`re a -- you`ve been given sovereignty, and you`re viewed as a sovereign entity. And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.

This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

I have always thought that American Indian tribes needed the equivalent of the Marshall Plan, in which the United States rebuilt Europe after World War II. I see this project as that type of effort.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I`d like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

I have visited forty-eight different tribes, the greater part of which I found speaking different languages, and containing in all 400,000 souls.

Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine.

As it is no part of the original Ghost dance and is confined to these two tribes, it deserves no extended notice in this connection.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

All of you know the neighborhoods that harbor terrorists, the tribes that have terrorists and those that don`t,

If he is going to go to war in a nation whose history shows it has never had a democracy -- it has rival tribes, it has minorities that often are antagonistic -- how we`re going to create a government that`s going to work and function and bring about a democracy after we`ve destroyed the infrastructure of the country?

The Oneida Nation remains strongly opposed to out-of-state tribal casinos. These out-of-state tribes are not federally recognized in New York and have no standing in this state.