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“In every immediate way, the natives had the upper hand. They outnumbered the survivors by more than ten to one. They were healthy and…

— Mitchell Zuckoff

“weigh a hundred and thirty-seven pounds and stand five foot four. The old one was over six feet, the younger a little taller than…

— Robert J. Crane

“a full-blooded Seneca Iroquois sachem, Ely S. Parker, who grew up on an Indian reservation in upstate New York and was a chief of…

— Ron Chernow

“He stood at least six foot three,”

— Toni Blake

“Men weigh love with hands.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told that they…

— Isak Dinesen

“A human hand was exactly the right weight, exactly the right temperature for touching another person, I realized.”

— Gail Honeyman

“She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck and ankles. But that was…

— Jim Thompson

“I saw him with her last week, at a coffeehouse near my apartment. They were holding hands. She’s captivated him.” “The Lakota Captive.” Leta…

— Diana Palmer

“by the mid-nineteenth century, Plains Indian men were taller than any documented population in the entire world, standing about a half inch above European…

— Claudio Saunt

“I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.”

— Pat Conroy

“I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At once I…

— Richelle E. Goodrich