Quotes of: Indian-music Keyword

There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.

Val Kilmer

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'

Vine Deloria, Jr.

John Dunbar: How come we haven't seen any buffalo? Timmons: Can't figure the stinking buffalo. Sometimes you don't see them for days, and sometimes they're out there as thick as curls on a whore. John Dunbar: What about Indians? Timmons: Indians? God...

Dances with Wolves

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.

American

There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.

Madhur Mittal

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

Russell Means

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

I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice.

Eve

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

Vikas Swarup

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

Meeting Shiva: Falling and Rising in Love in the Indian Himalayas

In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

James Welch

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

Sherman Alexie

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Amar Bose

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

Dee Brown

The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.

N. Scott Momaday

[calling Tom from Utah] Burt Munro: We did it, Tom. She's the World's Fastest Indian!

The World's Fastest Indian

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

Richard Attias

What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indian perspective... I think, for myself, I'm trying to put the Indian perspective in a different dimension.

Adam Beach

The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)

Don't Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned

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, ...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18 "laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh." --Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA Laughter is a good st...

Two Cultures Meet: Pathways For American Indians To Medicine