Sentence examples for dead indians from inspiring English sources

As Bonnichsen and Douglas Owsley, a fellow plaintiff, have pointed out, all those bones of dead Indians collected over the years have scientific value.

One of my heroes, Theodore Roosevelt, later a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, was unapologetic: "I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely in the case of the tenth".

Teddy Roosevelt said in 1886: "I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't inquire too closely in the case of the tenth.

The Native peoples represented by this reductive imagery are what King refers to as "Dead Indians".

When the Spanish entered the city they found 1,800 dead Indians, and the survivors eating the corpses.

When the Spanish entered the city they found 1,800 dead Indians, and the survivors eating the corpses of the dead.

I was in a vast desert, looking down at a dead Indian.

The young Laura grows up in a white community where "the only good Indian is a dead Indian".

The wounded Spaniards were forced to treat their injuries with the body fat of a dead Indian, the only ointment they could find.

But most importantly, when other settlers say racist things – for example, when the Ingalls's neighbor Mr. Scott says, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian" – I will call it racist, because it is.

In the end, it's the Consul, not Hugh, who dares — however drunkenly and uselessly — to make some kind of stand for the dead Indian, confronting the fascist militiamen at the cantina: You poxboxes.