Children Quote by Hampton Sides

“I’ve seen a lot of battlefields during my time in the cavalry, Rob, but I’ve never seen anything like that.  There were dead Indians…

— Keith R. Baker

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated

— George Bird Grinnell

“Colonel, my ass. That rotten Indian hater will only cause more problems out here for the real Army. If the man kept harassing and…

— Rosanne Bittner

“Indians were made for film. Indians were exotic and erotic. All those feathers, all that face paint, the breast plates, the bone chokers, the…

— Thomas King

“The power of endurance of the plains Indians has always been beyond comprehension by white men. These tribesmen hunted, feasted, gambled, and eagerly made…

— Frank Bird Linderman

“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being destroyed bit…

— Mary Crow Dog

“A Georgia volunteer, afterward a colonel in the Confederate service, said: “I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Death and worse happened on the plains.

— Larry McMurtry

“(Speaking of epidemics, one of three Native American women will be raped, and on the reservations 88 percent of those rapes are by non-Native…

— Rebecca Solnit

“This book is about how two of the world’s great democracies—the United States and India—faced up to one of the most terrible humanitarian crises…

— Gary J. Bass

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to…

— Rudolph Rummel