In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them. For example, when the British invaded India, many Indians accepted to work f...
What's with everybody always trying to get rid of the Indians? I said, not really asking for an answer. I thought again of the history-book pictures. Astronomers and brain surgeons. They should have d...
We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians o...
When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw some of those Indians for the first time; we got directions from them and reached the top of the mo...
Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.
India is about six times the size of France, he went on, as theglass of alcohol and a bowl of curried snacks arrived at ourtable. But it has almost twenty times the population. Twentytimes! Believe me...
When Chief Black Hawk was defeated and captured in 1832, he made a surrender speech:I fought hard. But your guns were well aimed. The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like t...
Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;Fear not the things thou suffer must;For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes.William BradfordPlymouth Colony Governor
Juet's journal frequently records how only a tiny quantity of alcohol was needed to get the Indians drunk, 'for they could not take it'; and tales of the drunkenness that greeted Hudsons' arrival pers...
The textbooks also fail to show how the continuous Indian wars have reverberated through our culture. Carleton Beals has written that our acquiescence in Indian dispossession has molded the American c...
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Before Sutter, native people had heeded the cycle of the seasons, time was infinite, and life's rhythms were unchanging. Now, for at least part of their lives, some Indians were wedded to a concept th...
But why not take pride in this country? It's the envy of the world. A place where any man can realize his dream. We, the dreamers, built this nation.The Indians and slaves might disagree, Jericho shot...
If some saw the Indians as living in prelapsarian innocence, there were others who judged them to be savage beasts, devils in the form of men. The discovery of cannibals in the Caribbean did nothing t...
No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. Indians were always regarded as aliens, and were rarely allowed to live with...
The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings.