Quotes About Indian

there would have been no warfare. One of the great Indian warriors of history was Red Cloud of the Oglala Dakota Sioux tribe, who had a reputation for daring and ferocity. In June of 1866, Sherman called Red Cloud and several other Lakota Sioux leaders to Fort Laramie to discuss a new treaty to permit a new road to be built through Sioux territory. Even before an agreement had been reached, however, a battalion

The idea that "all men are created equal" is a gift to the world from the American Indian.

On the western edge of the county and extending into two other counties was the Fort Warren Indian Reservation, the rockiest, sandiest, least arable parcel of land in the region. In 1948

I still play in corporate America. I protect the suits that want flashy muscle. Something exotic to impress their friends about what a big shot they are. You do the knife act on command? I asked. He shrugged. Sometimes. I hope it pays well, I said. He smiled. It either pays well or I don't do it. I may be their token Indian but I'm a rich token Indian.

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

The pervasive attitude of fatalism among Indians of all classes was yet another factor affecting the spirit of Indian armies—victory and defeat were not in their hands, they believed; whatever was destined to happen would happen. This

the first global war began in 1754 with the killing of a French Canadian officer in America's backcountry. The slaying of Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville on May 28, 1754, forty miles south of the Forks of the Ohio (modern-day Pittsburgh), occurred at the hands of colonial and Indian fighters led by a young Virginia officer named George Washington.

No, the Indian mutineers may have surrendered, but I did not. If I work with the British, it is because I no longer feel even Indian. The sea, now, is my only nation.

Jackson?' 'Sir?' 'What's a pundit?' 'I think it's one of them Indian geezers, sir, as comes up and strangles you from behind.' 'Yes, that sounds very likely.

It's the Indian headshake. It means you are probably right, or probably wrong. Who knows? Varuna has but a thousand eyes, Indra a hundred, you and I only two.

The place from where Sita is abducted has been identified as Panchavati, near Nashik in Maharashtra on the banks of the river Godavari. The name of the city of Nashik near Panchavati is derived from 'nasika' which means nose in Sanskrit and Prakrit, alluding to the cut nose of Surpanakha.

Harriet loved her new persona. As Maxine, she was courageous and accomplished, a woman of sophistication equally at home in Cannes or on the Indian subcontinent. As Maxine she didn't walk, she strode; she did not merely see, but beheld. The very air she breathed was bracing. Here was a conqueror of worlds.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

Paradoxical logic was predominant in Chinese and Indian thinking, in the philosophy of Heraclitus, and then again, under the name of dialectics, it became the philosophy of Hegel, and of Marx.

The biggest boy was long and dark with Thomas Hudson's neck and shoulders and the long swimmer's legs and big feet. He had a rather Indian face and was a happy boy although in repose his face looked almost tragic.

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning "lousy hunter."

Nice," said Mrs Spender emphatically, "is hardly the word, if you see what I mean. I mean a man who does such wonderful good by his mere influence, though mind you I don't mean like an Indian by simply sitting and thinking of nothing.

A reasonably new theme in the western world, Indian culture has known how to heal the body through food for thousands of years.

I believe that this is a part of our Indian culture, that whatever we want to do in our life, we need to be grateful and start that journey with the blessings of the Almighty.

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

My lunch is the staple Indian meal - rotis, vegetables and dal. But instead of wheat rotis, I have rotis made of bran or barley.

I am a simple person and a big fan of Indian cuisine, so whenever I am home, I prefer to eat the simple daal roti.

That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.