Quotes About Indians

These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency in producing the result we enjoy to-day, in having in so short a time replaced the wild buffaloes by more numerous herds of tame cattle, and by substituting for the useless Indians the intelligent owners of productive farms and cattle-ranches.

That was a big misunderstanding. The Indians thought that the white man's God had powerful medicine, to be able to give white people guns and pots and wheeled wagons and thousands of beads and mirrors and far-seeing telescopes and other wonders. They wanted to get such great medicine for themselves. What they were after was material, not spiritual.

It says here that Judge Sewall believed the American Indians were the lost tribe of Israel. He lists a number of similarities between the Jews and your Indians — the women move to a separate tent during menstruation, they don't eat pork and they practice circumcision.

Thus, one of the obstacles that lay in the path of the missionaries was partly overcome. A presentation of gifts seemed the obvious next step. Perhaps a carefully-planned, regular program of gift-drops, made over a period of time, would show the Indians that the intentions of these white men were friendly, and the repetition would gradually convince them.

An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

Kanosh the Pauvantee Chief with Several of his band visited me, gave them some council & presents. A Spirit seems to be taking possession of the Indians to assist Isreal. I can hardly restrain them from exterminating the "Americans."

Only the New Englanders, who had destroyed or driven out all their Indians, spoke against Manifest Destiny.

To keep the Indians beyond the 95th meridian and to prevent unauthorized white men from crossing it, soldiers were garrisoned in a series of military posts that ran southward from Fort Snelling on the Mississippi River to forts Atkinson and Leavenworth on the Missouri, forts Gibson and Smith on the Arkansas, Fort Towson on the Red, and Fort Jesup in Louisiana.

Gli indiani avevano l'impressione che questi europei odiassero tutto ciò che faceva parte della natura: le foreste con i loro uccelli e i loro animali, le radure, l'acqua, il suolo e l'aria stessa.

I quattro prigionieri, tutti i bambini, apparvero illesi; infatti quando un soldato chiese ad Ambrose Archer, di otto anni, come lo avevano trattato gli indiani, il ragazzo rispose che avrebbe "preferito restare con gli indiani se fosse stato possibile".

Had Colonel Carrington visited the scene of the Sand Creek Massacre, which occurred only two years before the Fetterman Massacre, he would have seen the same mutilations—committed upon Indians by Colonel Chivington's soldiers. The Indians who ambushed Fetterman were only imitating their enemies, a practice which in warfare, as in civilian life, is said to be the sincerest form of flattery.

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.

I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.

Negroes raised during the Civil War. Continued Cody: "On the second day out we suddenly discovered on the opposite side of the Saline River, about a mile distant, a large body of Indians, who were charging down upon us. Major Armes, placing the cannon on a little knoll, limbered it up and left twenty men to guard it; and then, with the rest of the

One of the command's marches pursuing the Indians was toward the headwaters of the Beaver, and General Carr asked Cody how far it

led by Lieutenants Price and Volkmar, the pursuing Indians retreated. North rode his horse in a circle, according to Cody, "a traditional plains signal for `enemy in sight." North's Pawnee scouts "broke ranks pell inell and, with Major North at their head, started

In turn, the Indians were to promise not to harass the white wagon trains and to allow the government to build forts and roads to protect the trains-which they were already doing. The tribes were also to stay within

Soon the whites would come, of course, but what he was seeing was a moment between, not the plains as they had been, or as they would be, but a moment of true emptiness, with thousands of miles of grass resting unused, occupied only by remnants—of the buffalo, the Indians, the hunters.

In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

Popcorn is American. Nobody but the Indians ever had popcorn, till after the Pilgrim Fathers came to America. On

that path. He said he had seen it yesterday. "It's some old trail," he said. That night by the fire Laura asked again when she would see a papoose, but Pa didn't know. He said you never saw Indians unless they wanted you to see them. He had seen Indians when he was a boy in New York State, but Laura never had. She knew they were wild men with red skins, and their hatchets were called tomahawks. Pa