Indian culture Quote by Sherman Alexie

“They were just little families cooking beans and planting and hunting a deer now and then, and having babies and laying their old folks…

— Nancy E. Turner

“You were breaking my bones and spirit and forcing your beastly love on me: a brute, a savage, a wild Indian wouldn’t do what…

— Christina Stead

“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

“There was one difference I would come to realize, between white kids and Indians. Among white kids there are tattletales everywhere. Indians? An Indian…

— Brady Udall

“People think Indians are a problem, but it’s them white outlaws who are the threat.”

— Susan Denning

“The tragedy of India is that we frequently have no respect for Indians, for Indian efforts and for Indian successes.”

— Verghese Kurien

“That was the way man was meant to live, he’d say, in harmony with the wild, like the Indians, not this lords-of-the-earth crap, trying…

— Jeannette Walls

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

“They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in the process.…

— Michael Crichton

“I might be killed any day, by whites or hostile Indians, I might be run down by a grizzly or a pack of buffalo…

— Philipp Meyer

“I am and always have been a friend of the Indian. I have always sympathized with him in his struggle to hold the country…

— William F. Cody

“I have often thought that given an extreme situation, I'd have it in me to kill, if that was the only way. I think…

— Mary Crow Dog