“Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for—annually, not oftener—if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Calamity Jane: Is it true? Indians killin' white people? Dan: That's the sewer mouth that follows Hickok around. Calamity Jane: Why are we standin' here? Guy: Ridin' out tomorrow, daybreak. Calamity Jane: Oh, really? Tomorrow. What's your fuckin' rush?! I'm goin' now. Even without Bill. Even without…”— David Milch, Calamity Jane, Robin Weigert, imdb.com
“That is I never say that I kill an Indian without I get his scalp. I sent two scalps east to the Sentennial [sic] and have one on the boat with me that I killed one week ago yestarday [sic]. But it came near being my last. for the indians [sic] had the first shot and tore a small piece out of my sid…”— Buffalo Bill Cody, codyarchive.org
“I have just returned from a big hunt. The Indians in this country are on the war path.”— Buffalo Bill Cody, codyarchive.org
“The White Man has taken most of our land. He has paid us nothing for it. He has destroyed or driven away the game that was our meat. In 1868 he arranged to build through the Indians' land a road on which ran iron horses that ate wood and breathed fire and smoke. We agreed. This road was only as wide…”— Buffalo Bill Cody, amazon.com
“I am and always have been a friend of the Indian. I have always sympathized with him in his struggle to hold the country that was his by right of birth. But I have always held that in such a country as America the march of civilization was inevitable, and that sooner or later the men who lived in ro…”— Buffalo Bill Cody, amazon.com
“In concluding, I want to express the hope that the dealings of this Government of ours with the Indians will always be just and fair. They were the inheritors of the land that we live in. They were not capable of developing it, or of really appreciating its possibilities, but they owned it when the…”— Buffalo Bill Cody, amazon.com
“Heather McNamara: God, aren't they fed yet? Do they even have Thanksgiving in Africa? Veronica Sawyer: Oh, sure. Pilgrims, Indians, Tater Tots. It's a real party continent.”— Daniel Waters, Veronica Sawyer, Winona Ryder, amazon.com
“To the Indians here I want to say a word of welcome. In my regiment I had a good many Indians. They were good enough to fight and to die, and they are good enough to have me treat them exactly as squarely as any white man. There are many problems in connection with them. We must save them from corru…”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org