Advantage Quote by Jared Diamond

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

— Buffalo Bill

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

— Ellsworth Huntington

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals,…

— Jack Handey

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible…

— John Lawson

The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the…

— Ted Nugent

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

— Anonymous

“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

For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

“The first colonial leaders, however, would have none of this. Most of them were military men, trained in the Irish wars. Whatever they thought…

— David E. Stannard

“They fought the Indians and then they fought the British, comprising 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army. They were the great pioneers— Daniel…

— James Webb

The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the…

— Vandana Shiva