Crosses Quote by Jim Elliot

I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what…

— Ruth Beebe Hill

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped,…

— Buffalo Bill

“Even the most traditional Indians, the ones who'd kept the old ceremonies alive in secret, either had Catholicism beaten into them in boarding school...or…

— Louise Erdrich

In two Indians were a little girl and took it and brought them up after their mother she grew up found it!!!!!!!!!!

— Lil Wol

“Nothing, however, bemused the Indians more than the European habit of blowing their noses into a fine handkerchief, folding it carefully, and placing it…

— Bill Bryson

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying…

— Kit Carson

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

— Wallace Stevens

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 began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to…

— John Sutter

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

— Zane Grey