Indian Quotes - Page 34

• The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.

  Patricia Briggs

  Blood, People, Immigration

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• My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Children, Stories

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• Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to land open. Watch for them in Libya and in Egypt, in Ankara and in Syria, through the straits about those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.

  Edgar Cayce

  Ocean, Egypt, Land

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• To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Real, Modern, American Society

  Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”

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• The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Men, Race, Lasts

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  War, Army, Church

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.9, World Wisdom, Inc

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• The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Hero, Men, Miracle

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.7, World Wisdom, Inc

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• I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, White Man, Authority

  North American Review, Apr. 1879

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• There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

  E. P. Thompson

  Mind, East, West

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• Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

  Larry Brilliant

  Heart, Wings, People

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• We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.

  Max Nordau

  Book, Echoes, Expression

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• I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.

  Nelly

  Latin, School, Kids

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• The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Reality, Self, Chinese

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• I look more Indian when I'm serious.

  Sherman Alexie

  Looks, Serious

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• Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dad, Redneck, Wheat Fields

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• I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Adults, Literature

  "I’m Y.A., and I’m O.K". Interview with Margo Rabb, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 2008.

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• The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)

  Kenneth C. Davis

  Years, Twenties, Population

  Kenneth C. Davis (1990). “Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History But Never Learned”, Crown Pub

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• The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.

  Nelson A. Miles

  White, People, United States

  Nelson A. Miles (1985). “Nelson A. Miles: A Documentary Biography of His Military Career, 1861-1903”, Arthur H Clark

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• We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Affliction, Levels, May

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• I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Heart, Mind, Aim

  Times Now Interview with Arnab Goswami, www.hindustantimes.com. January 28, 2014.

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• Starkville is an Indian word for trailer park.

  Skip Bertman

  Parks, Trailers, Trailer Park

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• I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Reading, Men, White Man

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• It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere in the planetary history religious expression changed from participation in the sound, color and rhythm of nature to the abstractions of man outside this context pleading for temporary respite and hoping in the next life to return to the Garden.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Religious, Men, Garden

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• I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show.

  Scotty Moore

  Country, Good Friend, Player

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• Dhoni has been an outstanding captain. His record as captain is simply terrific. He has done wonders to Indian cricket.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Dhoni, Done, Records

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