#indians

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

#case #constitutes #efforts #exception #government

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's 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

#bad #boy #cool #drink #get

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#autumn #ford #good #good movie #had

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't 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

#against #because #books #cavalry #fair

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#any #because #could #cultivation #draft

I'm very attracted to Indians. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#i #indians #very

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#career #indian #indians #least #means

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#colonization #europeans #every #indian #indians

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports. ↗

— Mahesh Bhupathi

#education #go #indians #into #just

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

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