#indians

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged. ↗

— John Woolman

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It's 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

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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. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history. ↗

— Fred Willard

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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

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I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. ↗

— John Hurt

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

— Sherman Alexie

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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

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As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. ↗

— Dave Attell

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