Indian Reservation Quotes

“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, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Relocation often means loss of identity. Here, far from the res, some people cease to be Indians without ever being accepted by whites. They sit, as one of my friends put it, with one ass between two chairs, a red and a white one.”
― Mary Brave Bird, Ohitika Woman