Reservations Quote by Buffalo Bill Download Open image “Indians were frequently off their reservations.” — Buffalo Bill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Reservations
It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were… — James Welch Copy Share Image
The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
One of the first things people think of when they think of Native Americans is reservations. We didn't have any idea what that was.… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to be optimistic on the reservation. When a glass sits on a table here, people don’t wonder if it’s half filled or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each… — James Welch Copy Share Image
The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
“After the removal era initiated officially in 1830 and the Seminole Wars of the 1840s, most Americans had the misperception that not Indians remained… — Mark Edwin Miller Copy Share Image
Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain. — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers. — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we all knew… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice,… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am… — Mildred Fay Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones… — Denise Juneau Copy Share Image
There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no".… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality,… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image