American Indian

American Indian may refer to:

  • Indian American, an inhabitant of the United States with ancestors from India.
  • Native Americans in the United States, the indigenous peoples within the present-day boundaries of the United States
  • Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the indigenous peoples of North and South America

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or indian:

    “We ask not pardon for ourselves but justice for all American women.”
    —Alison Low Turnbull Hopkins (1880–1951)

    “If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented, nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.”
    —Chief Joseph (c. 1840–1904)