Native American Mural in the Interior Department Building in Washington, D.C. by A. Houser.
“Being Indian is an attitude, a state of mind, a way of being in harmony with all things and all beings.”
– Brooke Medicine Eagle
Paleo Indians by Heinrich Harder, 1919.
“This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things… This war has come from robbery – from the stealing of our land.”
— Spotted Tail, Lakota Sioux Chief
Compiled and edited by Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated March 2026.
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Adventures in the American West
Oglala Sioux at an oasis in the Badlands, photo by Edward S. Curtis, 1905.