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The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.


Laurell K. Hamilton


#american indians #autonomy #country #even #fey

Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.


Sherman Alexie


#american-indians #humor #tolstoy #family

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.


Chief Joseph


#could #country #governor #great #indians

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'


Pauline Kael


#camera #costner #feathers #hair #head

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.


John Wayne


#country #did #feel #great #great country

The Indians are the Italians of Asia", Didier pronounced with a sage and mischievous grin. "It can be said, certainly, with equal justice, that the Italians are the Indians of Europe, but you do understand me, I think. There is so much Italian in the Indians, and so much Indians in the Italians. They are both people of the Madonna - they demand a goddess, even if the religion does not provide one. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is music inside the body, and music is food inside the heart. The Language of India and the language of Italy, they make every man a poet, and make something beautiful from every banalite. They are nations where love - amore, pyaar - makes a cavalier of a Borsalino on a street corner, and makes a princess of a peasant girl, if only for the second that her eyes meet yours.


Gregory David Roberts


#italians #love #pyaar #beauty

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#come #experience #indians #may #reminded

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#come #experience #indians #may #reminded

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 Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.


John Lawson


#content #destroy #far #far less #i

The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.


Zebulon Pike


#civilized #consisted #creek #flour #good