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We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri. - Meriwether Lewis Quotes
Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. - Zebulon Pike Quotes
They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but its bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money. - Ike Turner Quotes
The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault. - John P Kennedy Quotes
To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bulls camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line. - Nelson A Miles Quotes
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers. - Buffalo Bill Quotes
A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia. - Ezra Stiles Quotes
It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi. - Martin Van Buren Quotes
Its striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. - Jared Diamond Quotes
The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them. - John Sutter Quotes
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didnt think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. - Dick Gregory Quotes
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen. - Buffalo Bill Quotes
The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself. - Dee Brown Quotes
The Scarlet Letter, if you want to criticize the film, you should criticize Nathaniel Hawthorne for not putting Indians in there. - Roland Joffe Quotes
Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living. - Buffalo Bill Quotes
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two. - Daniel Boone Quotes
Indian policy has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century. - Russell Means Quotes
In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds. - Kit Carson Quotes
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. - George Armstrong Custer Quotes
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him Plays with Camera. - Pauline Kael Quotes
If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races. - Nelson A Miles Quotes
Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians. - Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time. - Bernhard Goetz Quotes
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode. - Nelson A Miles Quotes
Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost. - Meriwether Lewis Quotes
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. - Daniel Boone Quotes
Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Fords apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures. - Richard Widmark Quotes
The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi. - Martin Van Buren Quotes
Im proud of being part Cherokee, and I think its time all us Indians felt the same way. - Loretta Lynn Quotes
Indians were frequently off their reservations. - Buffalo Bill Quotes
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