Introduction: a reflexive historiography
My own nation (1899) / Queen Liliʻuokalani
Keep our treaties (1906) / Chitto Harjo
We can establish our rights (1913) / Cherokee Freedmen
That the smaller peoples may be safe (1918) / Arthur C. Parker
Another Kaiser in America (1918) / Carlos Montezuma
Our hearts are almost broken (1919) / No Heart et al.
I want to be free (1920) / Porfirio Mirabel
I am going to Geneva (1923) / Deskaheh
It is our way of life (1924) / All-Pueblo Council
As one Indian to another (1934) / Henry Roe Cloud
Fooled so many times (1934) / George White Bull and Oliver Prue
Let us try a New Deal (1934) / Christine Galler
If we have the land, we have everything (1934)/ Albert Sandoval, Fred Nelson, Frank Cadman, and Jim Shirley
We have heard your talk (1934) / Joe Chitto
Eliminate this discrimination (1941) / Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich
I am here to keep the land (1945) / Martin Cross
We are still a sovereign nation (1949) / Hopi Traditionalist Movement
I had no one to help me (1953) / Jake Herman
We need a boldness of thinking (1954) / D'Arcy McNickle
We are citizens (1954) / National Congress of American Indians
This resolution "gives" Indians nothing (1954) / Helen Peterson and Alice Jemison
We are Lumbee Indians (1955) / D. F. Lowery
The Mississippi Choctaws are not going anywhere (1960) / Phillip Martin
A human right in a free world (1961) / Edward Dozier
This is not special pleading (1961) / American Indian Chicago Conference
I can recognize a beginning (1962-1964) / Jeri Cross, Sandy Johnson, and Bruce Wilkie
To survive as a people (1964) / Clyde Warrior
We were here as independent nations (1965) / Vine Deloria Jr.
Is it not right to help them win their rights? (1965) / Angela Russell
We will resist (1965) / Nisqually Nation
I want to talk to you a little bit about racism (1968) / Tillie Walker
A sickness which has grown to epidemic proportions (1968) / Committee of 100
Our children will know freedom and justice (1969) / Indians of all tribes
We are an honorable people: Can you say the same? (1973) / The Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy
We have the power (1974) / John Trudell
For the continuing independence of native nations (1974) / International Indian Treaty Council
For human rights and fundamental freedoms (1977) / Geneva Declaration
Why have you not recognized us as sovereign people before? (1977) / Marie Sanchez
Our red nation (1978) / Diné, Lakota, and Haudensaunee traditional governments
These are inherent rights (1978) / The Longest Walk statement
Get the record straight (1987) / James Hena
This way of life: The peyote way (1992) / Reuben Snake
Let Catawba continue to be who they are (1992) / E. Fred Sanders
Return the power of governing (1994) / Wilma Mankiller
We already know our history (1996) / Armand Minthorn
We would like to have answers (2003) / Russell Jim
The sovereign expression of native self-determination (2003) / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
I will not rest till justice is achieved (2005) / Elouise Cobell
An organization, a club, or is it a nation (2007) / Osage Constitutional Reform testimony
The Gwich'in are caribou people (2011) / Sarah Agnes James
I want to work for economic and social justice (2012) / Susan Allen
I could not allow another day of silence to continue (2012) / Deborah Parker
Indian enough (2013) / Alex Pearl
We will be there to meet you? (2013) / Armando Iron Elk and Faith Spotted Eagle
Call me human (2015) / Lyla June Johnston
Conclusion: forgotten/remembered.