He was the liaison between the South American Indians and the Brazilian government. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I explained to a group of several hundred Africans, Indians, and Coloureds that volunteering was a difficult and even dangerous duty, as the authorities would seek to intimidate, imprison, and perhaps attack the volunteers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There in an old cave lived his Indian. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This so-called Indian business, as White discovered, was an elaborate criminal operation, in which various sectors of society were complicit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even as Tisquantum attempted to foment Indian distrust of Massasoit, he told the colonists that Massasoit was going to double-cross them by leading a joint attack on Plymouth with the Narragansett. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Louis Lippo said, “Mr. Trask is from New England. He plans to settle here. He’s been west before though—in the army, fighting Indians.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, the three researchers suggested, adult Indians were—and possibly still are—more vulnerable to infectious diseases than adult Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In many versions, though, today’s Indians are seen as relative latecomers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indians have historically been burdened by flukes, tapeworms, and nematodes, so they have long had majorities of parasite- fighting helper-T cells. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The man, who was armed with a .44-caliber, snub-nosed English Bulldog, was named A. W. Comstock, and he was a local attorney and the guardian of several Osage Indians. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

American Indians and Mexicans had long despised the Rangers for their brutal, shoot-first methods. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For fifteen days Verrazzano and his crew were the Narragansett’s honored guests—though the Indians, Verrazzano admitted, kept their women out of sight after hearing the sailors’ “irksome clamor” when females came into view. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Well, I was reminded of that story while visiting Global Edge, an Indian software design firm in Bangalore. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was one of those weird roadside curio shops that sell lawn flamingos and wooden Indians and cement grizzly bears and stuff like that. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian way of saying, Get your life together, Dimple. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Technology’s course over the last 1,000 years in China, Europe, and possibly the Indian subcontinent exemplifies those net effects of high, moderate, and low connectedness, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They apparently did not arrive until the first millennium A.D., long after their domestication in Asia, because they had to wait for large-scale boat traffic across the Indian Ocean. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten that reservations were meant to be death camps. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why is it when a little girl plays Cowboys and Indians everyone says she’s a darling little tomboy, but when a boy plays with a doll they say he’s queer? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without horses, Indian soldiers unavoidably traveled slower than European or Asian soldiers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By this time the Indian fighting had become like dangerous cattle drives—the tribes were forced into revolt, driven and decimated, and the sad, sullen remnants settled on starvation lands. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Might as well give it back to the Indians,” Milton thought. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Captain John Palliser, traveling through the same lands as Fidler six decades later, lamented the Indians’ “disastrous habit of setting the prairie on fire for the most trivial and worse than useless reasons.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I yawned and folded my legs, Indian style, as we put in the first blinds and Chas shuffled the non-Betch cards. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One of Hale’s lawyers asked him if he’d ever spoken to Hale about the murder of Roan or any other Osage Indian. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Indians adopted Mexican crops, and many of them discarded many of their local domesticates, piecemeal; squash was domesticated independently, corn arrived from Mexico around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They got the name because Indians supposedly kept sea cows penned up there a long time ago. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a little spooky, because what he drew was identical to what I used to imagine: a pair of Indian moccasins with two moons in them. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It also stated that any person “not being an Indian” who tried to settle or hunt on Muscogee lands would not be protected by the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

As for the Indians, evidence suggests that they tended to view Europeans with disdain as soon as they got to know them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Chief Opechancanough did mount one more large attack on the settlers, in 1644, but by then the European population had grown and the Indian population had been decimated. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A onetime spy for the revolutionary leaders in Mexico, Wren was a rarity in the bureau: an American Indian. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He glances down at the tan leather Indian khussa slippers he wears inside the house, like he’s measuring them up, as if he’s wearing them for the first, and not the millionth, time. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The real Romani of nineteenth-century central Europe, whose fundamental ethnic origins were Indian, kept their own music to themselves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Those romances always featured a love affair between a virginal white schoolteacher or preacher’s wife and a half-breed Indian warrior. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two thousands Indians laughed at the same time. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In creating modern maize from this unpromising plant, Indians performed a feat so improbable that archaeologists and biologists argued for decades over how it was achieved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Merciless disease, wild beasts, and Indian attacks were a constant threat. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

As I already mentioned, tame cheetahs were prized by ancient Egyptians and Assyrians and modern Indians as hunting animals infinitely superior to dogs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The last stop on our tour was Dari’s room, where Indian mixed with American, Bollywood posters bordered baseball posters. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Identifying Indians as these “lost tribes” solved two puzzles at once: where the Israelites had gone, and the origins of Native Americans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He also required integrity and sound credit: it wasn’t necessary that you pay as you played; you could pay West Indian Archie by the week. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, by the 19th century North America’s Great Plains Indians were famous as expert horse-mounted warriors and bison hunters, but they did not even obtain horses until the late 17th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But just as suddenly: “Indians! You know anything about Indians?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The people living on North Third Street were mostly Mexicans and Indians who had moved into the neighborhood after the whites left for the suburbs and subdivided the big old houses into apartments. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint twang in his voice, a hint of a patois that might have been West Indian. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Someday, I said to myself, I will become a teacher, one who does not just teach, but also shows respect to all his Indian students and expects the best of everyone. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, archaeological excavations, and scrutiny of descriptions left by the very first European explorers on our coasts, now suggest an initial number of around 20 million Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why would any Indian risk going off to work in sugar? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Beans running fine and prices good, so the Indians could be, must be, wrong. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Momma used to say the Indian was even worse off than the Negro, because instead of being taken from his land he'd had his land taken from him. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was in the context of this spirit of activism by Indians, Coloureds, and Africans that Walter Sisulu first broached the idea to a small group of us of a national civil disobedience campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he drove, John told Mom and Lori about the area, about the duck farms and the flower farms and the Indian origin of our town’s name. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they used to do long ago at night in Indian country. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three of the four Indian haplogroups are common in southern Siberia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Iroquois Indians used the leaves and roots of this plant to stop bleeding and purify cuts. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It allowed settlers to live in “Indian Territory” west of the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In Indian villages people could only be summoned by shouting; once a canoe had gone a few hundred yards, it could not readily be called back. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Other day, when I ask her, she say, “Pilgrims. They came over and nothing would grow so they ate the Indians.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The dress of the young man who now stepped out on to the terrace was Indian; but his plaited hair was straw-coloured, his eyes a pale blue, and his skin a white skin, bronzed. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Indian text written the same year that Rome fell—476 AD—shows the influence of Greek, Egyptian, and Babylonian mathematics, brought by Alexander as he penetrated Indian lands. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The U.S. government, contending that many Osage were unable to handle their money, had required the Office of Indian Affairs to determine which members of the tribe it considered capable of managing their trust funds. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Gallup people knew they didn’t have to pay good wages or put up with anything they didn’t like, because there were plenty more Indians where these had come from. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only Grandmother Pickford ever called my mother by her Indian name, though. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

One morning in June as Julie was dressing to go to the store, the head of the Indian Affairs in Mekoryuk appeared at the door. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of those Japanese survivors looked so Indian that they might have been Navajos. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a touch of color in the audiences, too, for the Osage Indians...often are stoical but interested spectators,” the Associated Press reported, deploying the usual stereotypes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The tall one looked like a Navajo guy from Fort Defiance that Tayo had known at Indian School. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This fraction of which the denominator is a cipher, is termed an infinite quantity,” writes Bhaskara, a twelfth-century Indian mathematician, who tells of what happens when you add a number to 1 + 0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Only Indian tribes are allowed to run casino operations in Florida, so Dusty somehow persuaded a couple of rich Miccosukees from Miami to buy the marina and make it part of their reservation. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They wrote directly to the Marines and complained to the Indian agent. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bower had shown us a picture of Indians. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick of Indian guys who treat white women like bowling trophies. Get a life.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like their confreres elsewhere in the Americas, Indian societies had built up a remarkable body of knowledge about how to manage and improve their environment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Herein lay another complaint the people had with the educated and tricky thugs who were trying to form a conservancy district in order to build the Zopilote’s private swimming lake behind the Indian Creek Dam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pearly told everyone who would listen that he was 100 percent Indian — Hindu Marwari through and through. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

What if we were walking into a place full of more trickster Indians? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But we could not show any fear or turn back, for if the Indians had sensed any weakness in us, even the Indians that we were bringing with us as guides would have killed us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In earlier work, Neel had combined data from multiple sources to estimate that two related groups of Central American Indians had split off from each other eight thousand to ten thousand years before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"I have no idea. I always wanted her to become an American, but if you met her today, you'd think she wasn't Bengali at all. I kind of miss my Indian mother." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here a limited gene pool may have spared Indians great suffering. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indian classical music is usually accompanied by a tanpura, which plays a drone background. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Our former question about apples or Indians becomes a question of zebras or Africans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian Affairs agent reported, “This little remnant is all that remains of a heroic race that once held undisputed ownership over all this region.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The other Indians fled as Washington and Gist “took this Fellow into Custody, and kept him till about 9 o’Clock at Night, and then let him go.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, unlike Indians, there weren’t enough Chinese people to warrant devising a whole separate classification. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ranee sees herself through his eyes—an elderly Indian woman with gray-black curly hair, moving slowly in her gray-blue sari. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was a full-blooded Indian, untamed, illiterate, and endowed with quiet wiles and a messianic vocation that aroused a demented fanaticism in his men. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And white people everywhere have always believed that the government just gives money to Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The medicine man warned the other Indians to leave the area. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Holmberg’s Mistake explained the colonists’ view of most Indians as incurably vicious barbarians; its mirror image was the dreamy stereotype of the Indian as a Noble Savage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Brahmagupta, an Indian mathematician of the seventh century, gave rules for dividing numbers by each other, and he included the negatives. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was an Indian kid from the reservation. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew two of those Indians had fathers in prison. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He waited a few moments, hoping the sound would scare the Indians away. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, they got a lot of Indians around here. And they ain’t white either. No problem, follow me,” he said. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

First there were Indians, an inferior breed without energy, inventiveness, or culture, a people that lived on grubs and grasshoppers and shellfish, too lazy to hunt or fish. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

How its name comes from a Dakota Indian word for “cloudy water.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In general, Coloureds and Indians received a slightly better diet than Africans, but it was not much of a distinction. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed nervously and said, "You look a bit like an Indian yourself." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I read “Indian Camp” and held Annie’s hand for the whole flight, but I didn’t say anything to her. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It is a little Indian with a baby. He says a scorpion stung it.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Indian farmers had greater skill and bounty, and more successful yields, than most Europeans who worked the same land. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In contrast, Indian blunt clubs, while capable of battering and wounding Spaniards and their horses, rarely succeeded in killing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard kids talking about the planes,” blurted an Indian boy. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My comparison of the histories of China, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe in the epilogue of GGS suggested an answer to this question as applied to technological innovation in whole countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A lawyer who knew them both noted that his “devotion to his Indian wife and his children is unusual...and striking.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And if illegal use of Indian Creek water brought down the wrath of the gods in the state capital, so be it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that not long before, West Indian Archie had been there looking for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It opened to a classroom, much like the ones I had sat in for endless hours at Indian boarding school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the leadership of a vigorous new tlatoani, Cuitlahuac, the Indians forced the invaders into narrow alleys where horses were of little advantage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She tells Vivian about living in the trailer on Indian Island, the car crash that killed her father, her mother’s struggle with drugs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Horsemen could easily outride Indian sentries before the sentries had time to warn Indian troops behind them, and could ride down and kill Indians on foot. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I told Lori how lucky we were to be sleeping out under the sky like Indians. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Neither European nor Indian had a secular understanding of disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She went everywhere with her little girl clutched to her breast, nursing her constantly without a set schedule and without regard for manners or modesty, like an Indian. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked Indian, like Hazel, and when she smiled down at Hazel it was like something familiar but forgotten. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Tell that girl of yours I learned about those Indians today,” she said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sides of the base layer are decorated with Indian elephants connected nose to tail. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The mathematician G. H. Hardy was visiting his protege, the Indian mathematician Ramanujan, in the hospital. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"First days are hard," she scolds, her African accent just as pronounced as my Indian one. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she says, “I’m a Penobscot Indian on my father’s side. When I was young, we lived on a reservation near Old Town.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She left a pile of her things by the door: a comb, a square of polished silver that Ajarry had scrounged years ago, the pile of blue stones that Nag called her “Indian rocks.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He did everything slowly and carefully, but beneath his tractorlike slowness and outward gentleness was a crossbreed of quiet Indian and country black man, surefooted, hard, bold, and quick. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the Indian community, the registration card was a humiliating symbol of discrimination. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Before one of the biggest archaeological audiences in history, Hrdlicka chose to discuss the skeletal evidence for Indians’ early arrival in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Ghetto Act, which had prompted the Indian protests, barely affected Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the heat I wore a coat and a tie, regarding the event as I would any other interview; I had never lived in the home of a person who was not Indian. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mollie had to remove the Indian blanket from her shoulders and put on a plain dress. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Jeez, I felt like one of those Indian scouts who led the U.S. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The river came through those hills and there were old Indian grounds there, holy burial grounds Jasón told me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you, it’s like the Indian version of Hollywood. Which is cool.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

And I just kept imagining there was some Flathead Indian grandma in the kitchen, just making fry bread for all the room-service people. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other reports say that the carriers were Cuban Indians whom Narvaez had brought as auxiliaries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the Indians approached final victory, tension rose in the fishing industry, then almost entirely controlled by whites. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wondered if they knew as little about Indians as I had known about Poles. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Indian Affairs commissioner had said, “The Indian must conform to the white man’s ways, peacefully if they will, forcibly if they must.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To the colonists’ dismay, an Indian sank an arrow into it a foot deep, “which was strange, being that a Pistoll could not pierce it.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The old West Indian tried to express defiance of them, and in a sudden rush a group of students sprang up and were after him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually it was the Southerners and the West Indians who not only managed to own the places where they lived, but also at least one other house which they rented as income property. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s confusing to him, too. Plus Gogol is not an Indian name, so he’s like a total outsider, even in his own culture.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Major Shannon, another of the Marines who was recruiting Navajos, had been a Bureau of Indian Affairs School principal before he became a Marine. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than domesticate animals for meat, Indians retooled ecosystems to encourage elk, deer, and bear. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Another area where local domestication appears to have followed the arrival of Southwest Asian founder crops is the Indus Valley region of the Indian subcontinent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His momma must have been scared in an Indian massacre in Africa. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even for western Kansas, renowned for the longevity of its Indian summers, the current sample seemed far-fetched—dry air, bold sun, azure sky. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the Mahabharata, the Ramayana was the other ancient epic poem that lots of Indians knew. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tillie’s death was never investigated, though Morrison admitted to an associate that he had killed her and asked him why he didn’t get an Indian squaw and do the same. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It was not wise to spend the four days necessary to build new canoes where we were, in danger of attack from the Indians,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They disavowed communism in ail its forms and considered whites and Indians “foreign minority groups” or “aliens” who had no natural place in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a reservation Indian attending an all-white school and my sister had just died some horrible death. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

To move people and goods from place to place, Indians built networks of ruler-straight causeways and canals, some of them three miles long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The field behind Indian Creek Elementary leaped off the screen—a glowing white bowl of chalk that from above looked like some sort of quarry. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was embarrassed to be so broken in front of all these new Indians. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

All of us being Indians in a white man’s Marine Corps meant we had a lot in common. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finally abandoned her work, not so much because of her husband’s sarcasm, but because it seemed impossible to compete with the ancient pottery of the Indians. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Indian food, an episode of the doctor show, and a full sheet of math plus homework for tonight, Mom releases me to my room. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They gave him Indian tea to drink and old Betonie told him to sleep. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a Carlos. It’s an Indian symbol,” she says, a little irritated, pushing his hand away. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When she got home late in the evening, she brought with her curried leftovers, mangoes and other Indian food. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten guys, the groom’s friends and family, led by a man playing the dhol, an Indian drum, begin to dance their way to the mandap. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“A long time ago some Indians lived here and farmed these fields,” he said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night more and then another I camp out like a Red Indian. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molly Molasses lived into her nineties, coming and going from Indian Island, and was said to possess m’teoulin, power given by the Great Spirit to a few for the good of the whole. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Indian bondage was more common still in the southern colonies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Several people told me that they had never seen an Indian witch before. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The accounts of the initial encounters between Indians and Europeans are windows into the past, even if the glass is smeared and distorted by the chroniclers’ prejudices and misapprehensions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The field at Indian Creek Elementary is all gravel,” said Luma. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Whenever we played a game against other Indian schools, I was always among those cheering loudly for our side. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has not had to go through this confusion with the other two Indian children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court had ruled that the place where Roan had been murdered was indeed on Indian lands. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If you’d given me a room full of sober Indians, crying and laughing and telling stories about my sister, then I would have gladly stayed and joined them in the ceremony. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am the only one in the family whose face is severely cut to the fine of ancient Indian ancestors. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of his ancestors was a Lakota Indian who went to fight the U.S. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A coalition of Indian tribes had taken Washington State to court over a treaty it had signed with them in 1854, when the state was still part of the Oregon Territory. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He got up, held it close to my eyes: and I read, traced in Indian ink, in my own handwriting, the words “JANE EYRE”—the work doubtless of some moment of abstraction. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was an astonishing sight, for the whole valley for 15 or 20 miles was completely filled with Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Forewarned of the visitors’ arrival by drum and messenger, Indians awaited them behind trees and in concealed canoes, shot fusillades of poisoned arrows, then withdrew. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Being in Dari’s house, you could tell they were proud of being Indian. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

During World War One, our country had used other Indians, Cherokees and Chickasaws, to send messages in their own language to confuse the enemy. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next came the U.S. government, seeking to place an Indian exhibit on the island, and then Professor Putnam, the fair’s chief of ethnology, who saw the island as the ideal site for several exotic villages. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We hid in a Dumpster we shared with a mute named Freddie when the school staff came for the Indians. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“You know what the Army doctor said: ‘No Indian medicine.’ Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re doing a dance to an Indian song,” Dimple said, feeling a flurry of nerves in her belly. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It made Tendai think of the storms that blew out of the Indian Ocean. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And not just smart for an Indian, okay? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And we know just where and when the end finally came: in South Africa, where an Indian lawyer was making a name for himself. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he went to the Indian school up in Pennsylvania, and if he did, how it compares to Miss Preston's. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

By then Indian mathematicians had already made a giant leap. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“What do Indians have to be so thankful for?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps so, but then skeptics must explain why the cultural divide between Indians and Spaniards, who did deeply influence each other, was so much smaller. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the tales of other Indians’ encounters with the strangers were alike in the same way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was lunchtime and I was standing outside by the weird sculpture that was supposed to be an Indian. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the coulee burst Rooster Jim, jouncing astride his new Indian motorcycle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the French and Indian War ended, the French left the region, ceding to the British all the land they had claimed east of the Mississippi River. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

American Indians were considered unsuitable as slaves, largely because native tribes were clearly in a position to fight back. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Indian campaign hearkened back to the 1913 passive resistance campaign in which Mahatma Gandhi led a tumultuous procession of Indians crossing illegally from Natal to the Transvaal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We anchored at Dominico...a very fair island...inhabited by many savage Indians....They are continually in wars, and will eat their enemies when they kill them, or any stranger if they take them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could slide into a fury “quicker than ten drunk Indians.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were surrounded by Indians, and it would cost them too much in time and physical labor. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And we can hear that shift in the voice of one remarkable, mysterious Indian. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’m always dodging the cops as it is, and now I’m dodging West Indian Archie on top of it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered going to the old cowboy movies and seeing the cowboys sitting around a campfire and the Indians sneaking up on them and making noises like owls and stuff. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as Charlie was concerned, the Great Hunter was an Indian spirit who lived in our woods. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A reporter noted at the time, “It will be a far cry from the days of affluence as the husband of an oil-rich Osage Indian woman.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reason: the fricldng booze. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And that was how he found the Indian girl who brought him to her people and they became one rich, happy family and moved west together. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

As a rule, Indians were theologically prepared for the existence of Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My next stop was a meeting in Durban with Dr. Naicker and the Executive Committee of the Natal Indian Congress, where I raised the sensitive issue that the Nations! Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Puritan leaders were horrified when some members of a rival English settlement began living with the Massachusett Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indians not only created a new species, they created a new environment to put it in. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maize originated, litis postulated, in a strange, wholesale mutation of teosinte, to which Indians added and subtracted features through intensive breeding. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sifting through the evidence, it is apparent that many though not all Indians were superbly active land managers—they did not live lightly on the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We all knew the story of how the Virgin had presented herself to the little Indian boy in Mexico and about the miracles she had wrought. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A third to half of the remaining Indians in New England died. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When we got to our room, we saw some real Indians sitting on the curb. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Created in the nineteenth century as a volunteer citizen militia to fight American Indians on the frontier and, later, Mexicans along the border, the Rangers had evolved into a kind of state police force. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To her it was the food of covered wagon people, of Indian fighters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that Indians always used fire for strictly utilitarian purposes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In Durban, we paid a call on our colleagues at the Natal Indian Congress in an effort to boost activism in the area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They never asked me if I was Indian; sold me as much beer as I could drink. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining settlers were ravaged by disease, starvation, and warfare with the Indians. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If I’d punched an Indian in the face, then he would have spent days plotting his revenge. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

At times he wishes he could disguise it, shorten it somehow, the way the other Indian boy in his school, Jayadev, had gotten people to call him Jay. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When agents interrogated the Kaw Indian, it didn’t take much for her to crack. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible to find twelve white men who would convict one of their own for murdering American Indians. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He lives with his two children, Merlin and Angel, and their mother, Maria, in the little guest house next to my house on the shore of the Indian Ocean. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to sit up in the gods anymore with people all around me cheering on the Indians killing General Custer and the Africans chasing Tarzan all over the jungle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Landscape,” in this case, is meant exactly—Amazonian Indians literally created the ground beneath their feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He might have tried protecting me, and I didn’t want him shot in the head by West Indian Archie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one Indian kid, maybe one or two black kids, and me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Adam Trask thought of the war in terms of his own now dimly remembered campaign against the Indians. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The former paintings in the lobby—landscapes aglow with Manifest Destiny, scenes of Indians being slaughtered—had been carted down to the basement. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the simple existence of the Indian slave trade— thousands of native men and women working in bondage for Europeans—was a testament to Indians’ catastrophic loss of power and status. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“How’d you know—” “I heard you tell your brother that Vandalia Eubanks was a puppy. I can hear all over the house. I got ears on me like an Indian scout. And I don’t sleep.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I asked whether the reason for the failure of North American Indians to domesticate North American apples lay with the Indians or with the apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it is true that I refer to him as an Indian, because the label is useful shorthand; so would his descendants, and for much the same reason. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I guess they still considered her just another Indian, after all. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Colored people, black people, white people, and Indian people were forced to register their race with the government. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Fugees, she said, were finished playing soccer at Indian Creek Elementary. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

An 1875 amendment to the state constitution provided for “separate but equal” schools for whites, blacks, and Indians, laying the foundation for discrimination. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Travel magazine wrote, “The Osage Indian is today the prince of spendthrifts. Judged by his improvidence, the Prodigal Son was simply a frugal person with an inherent fondness for husks.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

An Indian Affairs agent would later describe her as “industrious” and a “person of good character.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Spanish sack of Tawantinsuyu calamitously expanded on this tradition of plunder, which has greatly accelerated in modern times, fueled by the desperate poverty of Peru’s Indian population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The courts repeatedly endorsed the Indian view and the state repeatedly appealed, twice reaching the U.S. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Though this mind-set prevented the Indians from contributing much to geometry, it had another, unexpected effect. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Hamilton had been born on the West Indian island of Nevis, the illegitimate son of a down-on-her-luck beauty of French extraction and a hard-drinking Scottish merchant with a flair for bankruptcy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

No, he told the judge, English wasn’t his first language; that would be Nahuatl, the Mexican Indian tongue. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solutions that Sumerians invented before 3000 B.C. were reinvented, halfway around the world, by early Mesoamerican Indians before 600 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She knows that she was named for Molly Molasses, a famous Penobscot Indian born the year before America declared its independence from England. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In 1928 a group of thirty or so Native American Indians had been living on one of the large ranches below the St. Francis Dam. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

One thing I hate, it’s a silent Indian. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ohio, Indiana, Michigan were dressed up like the Indian warriors from whom their names came. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Government officials working for the Office of Indian Affairs were also concerned that Mollie was slowly being poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I read somewhere that it has combustible oil in it that the Indians used to start fires. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered an old Indian joke: follow cigar smoke; fat men there. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

South Indian food is so spicy it burns on the way out, but it’s worth it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

An Indian Affairs agent said, “The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, thank you,” the Indian woman said as Obinze and Nigel installed the new dishwasher and rolled away the old. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the squadrons of Indians who had remained in the plain outside the town saw the other Indians fleeing and shouting, most of them too panicked and fled. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now I turn to a parallel intellectual journey: the growth in understanding of the antiquity, diversity, complexity, and technological sophistication of Indian societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On September 11, 1906, the Empire Theater in Johannesburg, South Africa, was crowded with Indian delegates, waiting to hear word about the Black Act. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because she was with these reservation Indians, out drinking with them and dancing in Gallup with all the other reservation Indians. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

White observed the way Ramsey kept saying “the Indian,” rather than Roan’s name. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They reached the shanty, Burnham wrote to Margaret, “just in time to hear Col. Rice tell some yarns about the war and life in the plains among the scouts and Indians.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I was born here, you racist! And that guy was Egyptian. My family’s Indian.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Do you know what an Indian call center sounds like? The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nicole cut a glance at the Indian girl trying to horn in on her show. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They say their Indian guide had acted strangely; he left them suddenly with no explanation. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And what’s more, our white dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did, so he only gave us half the Novocain. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We got so many darn chiefs,” he said, “there’s no room for any Indians.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black kids, white kids, Indian kids, colored kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now I knew them Pilgrims didn’t eat no Indians. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds, and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family looked Indian but dressed as foreigners did, the children in stiff, brightly colored clothing and caps with translucent visors. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

At least the day won’t be a total loss because I can smell the parathas that my mother is making for Indian brunch. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I just finished a draft essay about my career dream: a fair-trade company that invests in and designs eco-friendly clothes sewn and embroidered by Indian village women. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the same time, I reported in detail the reservations I had encountered about the ANC’s cooperation with whites, Indians, particularly Communists. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A witness had overheard Hale talking to Grammer before the murders, murmuring something about being ready for “that Indian deal.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One summer the family lived on an Indian reservation in a teepee, subsisting on government-surplus peanut butter and cornmeal. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The Office of Indian Affairs received a note from someone who knew Mollie, saying that she was “in failing health and is not expected to live very long.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In addition, many of our grassroots African supporters saw Indians as exploiters of black labor in their role as shopkeepers and merchants. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I’d always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole — I wasn’t expected to be good so I wasn’t. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was an Indian and had to lose anyway, I liked most to be shot when I was up in the loft. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their teacher, a charming eight-months-pregnant young woman dressed in a traditional Indian sari, moved seamlessly among British, American, and Canadian accents as she demonstrated reading a paragraph designed to highlight phonetics. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Each Christmas, black families would celebrate by taking children of all ages to the Indian place on First Avenue to be outfitted with cheap garments, and some, the extremely lucky ones, with sneakers or shoes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although we killed the Indians who held the litter, others at once took their places and held it aloft, and in this manner we spent a long time in overcoming and killing Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians had borrowed little of Greek geometry. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He looked like an Indian on horseback in an old Western movie, attacking a wagon train. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

On March 22, 1621, an official Native American delegation walked through what is now southern New England to negotiate with a group of foreigners who had taken over a recently deserted Indian settlement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But next time, I’ll make sure there are no Indian relatives around.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what that is?” the Indian man—Dr. Kumar— said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to do things our own way. Maybe we’ll even write our own book, Cattle Raising on Indian Land, or how to raise cattle that don’t eat grass or drink water.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indians were and are less numerous in the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jasón’s father had forbidden Jasón to talk to the Indian, he had beaten him, he had tried in every way to keep Jasón from the Indian. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would survivors and relatives of the Lakota Sioux Indians butchered at the Wounded Knee Massacre, which took place just three years before the symphony’s first performance, have recognised its melodies as theirs? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Well, okay, Gordy was white, but anybody can start to act like an Indian if he hangs around us long enough. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He did everything possible to probe and expose the hypocritical rhetoric surrounding the Indian Creek Dam—the state engineer’s pronouncement, for example, that it was “the only way to save a dying culture.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faced with an ecological problem, the Indians fixed it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know that Indian women had more power and authority than white women, a fact detailed in captivity stories. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, my grandmother had met thousands, tens of thousands, of other Indians at powwows all over the country. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian Agent had offered to take the Labrador if nobody turned up to claim him, as his own hunting dog had recently died... The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians didn’t use pillows, either, he explained, and look how straight they stood. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

To these thinkers, Indians were living demonstrations of wholly novel ways of being human—exemplary cases that were mulled over, though rarely understood completely, by countless Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But there are also Indians hiding behind the trees. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the canoes land and the Indian men begin to pull them up onshore, Richard and I go closer. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A reporter from Harper’s Monthly Magazine wrote, “Where will it end? Every time a new well is drilled the Indians are that much richer.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In both, Indians took the first steps toward modern maize in southern Mexico, probably in the highlands, more than six thousand years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After that, she spread manure in the fields when the leaves of the Indian corn turned yellow. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

First, colonial descriptions of Native Americans are among the few glimpses we have of Indians whose lives were not shaped by the presence of Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I spoke nothing but Navajo whenever I was alone with other Indian students. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front detachments were now close to our camp, and still more troops kept issuing from the camp of the Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Both are variants of Holmberg’s Mistake, the idea that Indians were suspended in time, touching nothing and untouched themselves, like ghosdy presences on the landscape. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I also loved stories of wolves, bears, and wolverines in North America and Canada, jaguars anacondas and sloths in South America, orangutans, Indian elephants, and tapirs in Asia, and so on. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The implication, implausible at first glance, was that Indians in their virgin-soil state were more vulnerable to European diseases than virgin-soil Europeans would have been. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Indians watched impassively and silently and made no move to stop him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little after four o’clock on an Indian Summer afternoon. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Many more treated Indians cruelly, murderously so, killing countless thousands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The implication was that every Indian society in the hemisphere was descended from Clovis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Of course, since I was allergic to pretty much every plant that grew on earth, I would have been a real Indian with a head full of snot. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, ever since white people showed up and brought along their Christianity and their fears of eccentricity, Indians have gradually lost all of their tolerance. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he recovered, he was in seventh, four lengths behind Aneroid and Indian Broom. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He became a plain on which, like the cowboys and Indians in the movies, she and her husband fought. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1605 the adventurer George Weymouth abducted five Indians, conning three into boarding his ship voluntarily and seizing the other two by the hair. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To visitors today it seems obvious that Cahokia and the many other mound sites in the Midwest and Southeast are the remains of Indian settlements. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Portrayed in countless U.S. history books and Hollywood westerns, the Indians of the Great Plains are the most familiar to nonscholars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Bobby deliberately varied the kinds of food he ate: Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Hungarian, even Kosher, alternating restaurants every night. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There he lay blinking up at the clouds until two Canadian Indian pickers pulled him out by the armpits. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Martin had been coming over to gorge on Didu's Indian food or study for science tests for years without making me tingle. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Certainly not a shallow pit with two mighty Indian rhinoceros. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ma don’t need any Indian roots and berries,” Big Ma said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

This is because I like Indian food because it has a strong taste. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The map was like this birds tigers gibbons 10 The dhole is the Indian wild dog and it looks like a fox. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They regarded civil disobedience not as a form of protest but as a crime, and were perturbed by the growing partnership between Africans and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the afternoon, I had collected from West Indian Archie for a fifty-cent combination bet; he had paid me three hundred dollars right out of his pocket. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indians can be just as judgmental and hateful as any white person. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Riding with several groups of Indians in high fire season, he spent days on end in a scorched land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To the average white American, the word “Indian” conjures up an image of a mounted Plains Indian brandishing a rifle, like the Sioux warriors who annihilated General George Custer’s U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to order Indian?” she asks. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suppose that North American wild apples really would have evolved into a terrific crop if only Indian hunter-gatherers had settled down and cultivated them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a time, on that faraway island, we were just Indians sitting around a fire and eating. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the only kid, white or Indian, who knew that Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mr. Kumar were the prophets of my Indian youth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In 1994 Neel and Wallace sifted through mitochondrial DNA from eighteen widely dispersed Indian groups, looking for mutations that had occurred since their common ancestors left Asia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That fall in the false warmth of a Brooklyn Indian summer, Katie sat on the stoop and held her sickly baby against the bigness which was another child soon to be born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a Lakota fighting with the Indian policemen, so he thrust his rifle, with a long bayonet on the end of the barrel, at Crazy Horse.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Indian insistence on personal liberty was accompanied by an equal insistence on social equality. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was good money in snitching on Indians, and people would call in if a Swedish girl wore a braid in her hair. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He clapped his hand over his mouth and gave a long Indian whoop that echoed back at them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In addition, Tawantinsuyu was invaded by other European pestilences, to which the Indians were equally susceptible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the Wampanoag fended off Indians from the interior, preventing them from trading directly with the foreigners. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If I look up, I can see the dark form of the Indian Princess. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Technology! Innovation! A modernized state in which all Americans—Negroes, whites, Indians—could live together.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Just like I’m Indian, but nobody’s judging me on that.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It took about a month after the battles of June, July, and August for Indian Creek to work itself back into shape. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did I tell you? Indian kids, best manners in the world!” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Here, in America, the idea of race emerged as a means of reconciling chattel slavery—as well as the extermination of American Indians—with the ideals of freedom preached by whites in the new colonies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Indian who was just entering the dining room with the serving tray stumbled, and the roast chicken rolled under a chair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting Indian style, the Object leaned forward, holding the cigarette in her mouth over a green ceramic lighter shaped like an artichoke. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Texas Instruments alone has had 225 U.S. patents awarded to its Indian operation. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only a part- time job. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day while killing my hour of prayer, I remembered a series of volumes of Indian history I had read the year before. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest corn cobs are barely more than half an inch long, but Mexican Indian farmers of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the driver, Michael, was a cheerful West Indian lad who took my case and made a fuss of sliding the front passenger seat forward for me. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Executive Committee believed that the Indian Congress had become inactive of late. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only easy-to-find items in this category are Indian Classical music, for example the performances of Ravi Shankar. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She was big-boned and had an Indian face, with broad features, dark skin, and a sweet, peaceful expression. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Approaching in their great canoes, the Indian soldiers wore brilliant feather cloaks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And baseball in Seattle had recently experienced a major setback—one of many more to come—when the wooden stands at the Indians’ ballpark, Dugdale Park, burned to the ground in July 1932. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were on the north side of town anyway, Little Africa, where blacks, Mexicans, and Indians lived; and the only white people over there were Slav storekeepers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some people said it’s named Turtle because it used to be home to this giant snapping turtle that ate Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And for some reason I don’t understand, lonely white people love to hang around lonelier Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her greatgrandmother ran a grocery store, and so they were able to put aside some money and marry one of their daughters to the first Indian lawyer in the colony. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Blanca tried to disabuse him of his error, explaining that neither she nor her work contained a drop of Indian blood, but the language barrier prevented him from understanding her point of view. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’ve never had Indian food,” I say as I scan the lunch specials. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I like having three Indian grandparents, four if you count my dead grandfather. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They will say to an Indian: “My friend, my brother.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Many Amazonian Indian groups were similarly eliminated by private settlers during the rubber boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In both, Indians worked on a very large scale, transforming huge swathes of the landscape for their own ends. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Gandhi traveled back to India, where he spoke to the English government officers who were responsible for Indians in Natal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It is an unseasonably warm October day, Indian summer, Mrs. Scatcherd calls it, and we are sweltering on the platform. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At last, after September, another weather arrives, an Indian summer that occasionally endures until Christmas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen Indians several times in the ’Glades, in twos and threes, but this was a large party. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

And Indian boys weren’t supposed to dream like that. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though Coloured Education was compulsory and slightly better than Bantu Education, it still qualified Coloureds for third-class citizenship, behind whites and Indians. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps science was stillborn in Indian, Mayan and Aztec civilizations for the same reason it declined in Ionia, the pervasiveness of the slave economy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just like the kind the Mexican Indians made, he said, only they made theirs out of cactus that went right on blooming with bright red flowers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

At night the Indians and soldiers played cards. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We had wild game for the killing, fertile ground for growing bread corn, and the Indians had been put onto reservations with the return of U.S. soldiers to the Texas forts. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Spaniards arrived and then Indians died—in huge numbers, at incredible rates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She still hung on to that old-time Indian spirit, you know? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting on the dining room floor, writing letters to God in my Indian Head tablet. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, there is a place in the world where the white people are poorer than the Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Given the inheritance rules for mitochondrial DNA, the conclusion that Indians and Siberians share common ancestry seems, to geneticists, inescapable. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As I went down the list, I noticed that a third Osage Indian had died under Mathis’s guardianship, and so had a fourth, and a fifth, and a sixth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s Indian, goes to Princeton, and took your number. And you’re not jumping out of your seat why?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I began to wonder whether West Indian Archie might not be right. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also formed close friendships with a number of Indian students. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I still don’t understand how we went from superheroes to an Indian wedding party,” Bridge said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Indian tribe sold tax-free tobacco products, and smokers came from miles away to stock up. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tryouts were to be held on the field of the Clarkston Community Center, an old brick and cream-colored clapboard building on Indian Creek Drive. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt, who became a colonel, brought together a group of fierce cowboys, American Indians, Texas Rangers, prospectors, cops, and elite athletes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Primary thoroughfares have a way of persisting through the indignities of time—though Manhattan Island has been entirely resurfaced by human hands, the old Indian trail through it persists as Broadway. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I went to Indian Health Service to get some teeth pulled so I could eat normally, not like some slobbering vulture. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Indians and Australians were fighting for the British in the Pacific and the Far East; Canadians were fighting for them in the Mediterranean. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I love Indian food, but not the days-old lingering smell of onions and garlic on my clothes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In one of the boxes was a tattered, fabric-covered logbook from the Office of Indian Affairs cataloging the names of guardians during the Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You are here! So still you are interested in your Indian culture? Goodgood. Very good.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was reading this book about old- time Indians, about how we used to be nomadic.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We have a pitiful harvest of wheat and vegetables from our gardens, but the Indians often bring us food from their own harvests to trade. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A number of students at Truman have the last name Patel, a common Indian name and one I never heard in my days in Levittown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The spirit of mass action surged, but I remained skeptical of any action undertaken with the Communists and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indian people could get pretty intense about grades, and maybe his parents were putting the pressure on. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, Indians propose placing control of the land into their hands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Using cardboard cutouts of cowboys, Indians, stagecoaches, and horses I’d glued to sticks, I projected a shadow show about a sheriff in the American Wild West who had to protect his town from bandits. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They kept out of the sun so they wouldn’t grow dark like Indians. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point he ran into a party of suspicious Crow Indians, but he managed to win them over by repeatedly taking out and replacing his false teeth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Reports note that since the Second World War a pattern of drinking and violence, not previously seen before, is emerging among Indian veterans.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He woke once to go to the bathroom, and a cowboy was standing on top of a speeding stagecoach, shooting Indians. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The previous owner of the ear necklace had been an Indian named Strong. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Jody explained, “The dogs eat them, sir. It wouldn’t be much like hunting Indians, I guess.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few miles downriver would be the next group of Indians, and the next attack. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On July 27 they amused themselves by wearing their Indian headbands and feathers from Huckleberry Island to practice in Griinau. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Four in the family,” his father says when it is their turn, producing two U.S. passports and two Indian ones. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But there was more to the planters’ outrage than a desire to silence one outspoken Indian. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I emphasized that unity among the black people — Africans, Coloureds, and Indians — in South Africa had at last become a reality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We silently stole down the mountain and slipped like ambushing Indians through the open gate in the back of the tipple area, where Dad’s grimy little brick office was. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The peasants went to an Indian curandera who knew all about the power of herbs and suggestion, and in whom they had great confidence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

North American Plains Indians, South American Araucanian Indians, New Zealand’s Maoris, and Ethiopians acquired guns and used them to hold off European conquest for a long time, though they were ultimately defeated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Money was the one means at Mollie’s disposal that might induce the indifferent white authorities to pursue a killer of Indians. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To be fair, Hucbald merely experimented with this concept rather than invented it; it had been circulating in musical theories since antiquity, as indeed it had in Indian and Chinese musical systems. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He stands by my bed wearing Indian clothes, a loose tunic and wide pants. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, one can say that for the most part the initial Indian-European encounter was less of an intellectual shock to Indians than to Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But that is exactly what the Indians did. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He seemed concerned that Mr. Pirzada might take offense if I accidentally referred to him as an Indian, though I could not really imagine Mr. Pirzada being offended by much of anything. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I suggested to Mom that she sell her Indian jewelry. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Almost five hundred years ago, Indians lined the edge of the rise, taunting Orellana by waving palm fronds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was so inspired by my find that I invented an Indian tribe, the Coalhicans, and convinced the boys I played with—Roy Lee, O’Dell, Tony, and Sherman—that it had really existed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I have this book about the founding of Little Rock and the Indians who used to live here and...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bar has four taps, but I know which ale West Indian Archie likes. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, for all the hardships and prejudice, most Indians decided to stay in the colonies even after their contracts ended. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere, though, Indians controlled it—at least until contact, and in many places long after. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Is the farmer, the doctor, the Indian, the greatest problem in America today? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the bodies were an aspiration, lucrative as Indian land, a veranda, a beautiful wife, or a summer home in the mountains. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Indians, he said, must be led to salvation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indian Creek was our pool, named for the Levittown section it adjoined. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“No one. Just an obscure Indian comic from when I was a kid.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The flies hadn’t harassed the Indian when he owned it, as Ridgeway reminded him from time to time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If a murder occurred on Indian territory, then the federal authorities could claim jurisdiction. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mom’s sunglasses blew off under the Indian Key Bridge, but she told Dad to keep going. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Infosys is one of the jewels of the Indian information technology world, and Nilekani, tire company’s CEO, is one of the most thoughtful and respected captains of Indian industry. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We were desperate to craft more keys, to give shape to the kind of Indians who could not be robbed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Every week family and friends gathered at Milton’s new house in Indian Village for Sunday dinner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Merger under the threat of external force is well illustrated by the formation of the Cherokee Indian confederation in the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before encountering the Indians, Jean Paul had asked his father, “Are they dangerous? Will we have to fight them off?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nearly a year later, French soldiers and their Indian allies ambushed a large British unit led by General Edward Braddock north of Great Meadows. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, the ANC, the South African Indian Congress, and the Coloured People’s Congress would make a collective statement on an issue affecting only Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been dragged along by Pappa and Ma to some Indian acquaintances wedding in San Diego. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Indians were surprised when strange-looking people appeared on their shores, but unlike Europeans they were not surprised that such strange people existed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The area's human geography is equally diverse: it is the home of more than a dozen major Indian groups, who have a long and fractious history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the political front, the government was pursuing its standard divide-and-rule strategy in attempting to separate Africans from Coloureds and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the images of Indians I had seen were negative. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Columbus had more than one hundred men on his three ships; I had a small crew from the Discovery Times channel that fit comfortably into two banged-up vans, with Indian drivers who drove barefoot. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Indian moccasins were so much more comfortable and waterproof than stiff, moldering English boots that when colonists had to walk for long distances their Indian companions often pitied their discomfort and gave them new footwear. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Besides, he blithely explained, Jews were cowardly and greedy, and Indians were not. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In modern times, European farmers thereby replaced western North American Indian hunters, Aboriginal Australians, and the San people of South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Clarkston Community Center was no longer an option due to a rift between the center and the YMCA, and the field behind Indian Creek was too dangerous given Tito’s shooting, Luma believed. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He said that the Spaniards wiped out more Indians with smallpox than with muskets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slash-and-burn was a product of European axes—and European diseases, which so shrank Indian groups that they adopted this less laborious but also less productive method of agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The consensus outside Virginia seemed to be that “not one person in a thousand in the United States knows that there is such a place on earth,” and those few who did were all Indians. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

With Byron walking around me like that we must have looked like we were in the Wild West and I was a wagon train and Byron was the Indians circling, waiting to attack. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night in our tent there is more discussion about an Indian attack. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Moreover, few Indians carry the gene that permits adults to digest lactose, a form of sugar abundant in milk. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not only would domesticated animals have changed Indian societies, they might have created new zoonotic diseases. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Take her, beta, and show her how to be at least a little Indian.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They were opposed to interracial cooperation, in large part because they believed that white communists and Indians had come to dominate the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But some of these Indians I pick up, they say their people didn’t come over the land bridge. They say they come from a lost island, like Atlantis.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“There is no doubt that there are many Indians on all sides about us,” Cherrie wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

On the runway in Boston, her seat belt buckled, Ashima looks at her watch and calculates the Indian time on her fingers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They make Indian food infrequently—usually it’s pasta or broiled fish or take-out from the Thai restaurant down the block. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, my mother is appalled that I’m not making you Indian food,” she says, studying the contents of the pan. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, after the war Massachusetts sold more than a thousand Indians into slavery—perhaps one out of every ten native adults in the region. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I knew that seven or eight of those Indians lived with drunken mothers and fathers. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eager to see what Indian Creek looked like now, I drove over there on a summer day and parked in the lot. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They are not like the Indians, who are only enemies while at war, and are friends in peace. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

"The stones are inspected,” he wrote in one of the few doggerel poems ever published in Science, And Holmes cries, "rejected, They're nothing but Indian chips.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This might mean working with broad categories of Chinese, Indian or West African music, or narrow sub-cultures such as hip-hop music, Motown sound from the 1960s, or even the sound of an individual singer. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They are worth a fortune in trading because the Indians prize them so much. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As in British Guiana, Trinidad, and Mauritius, Indians were first brought to Natal to cut cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He didn’t sit because he was only an Indian, but stood leaning against the wall. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A similar phenomenon seems to have taken place in North America, where Indians were widely said to have practiced slash-and-burn as part of their habit of living lightly on the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indian and Coloured women manned the department, and one of them was assigned to teach me the basics. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island Indians, whose estimated population at the time of their “discovery” exceeded a million, were rapidly exterminated on most islands by disease, dispossession, enslavement, warfare, and casual murder. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you know so much, why is our grandpa Indian and we’re not?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Indian women could teach your American bra-burners a thing or two," Ma retorts. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They may work out all right,” said Stuart, “but I would hate to meet an American Indian while I had one of these things in my hand.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

They speak a language in the Tupi-Guarani group, one of the most important Indian language families in South America but one not common in Bolivia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The house became a clutter of trunks, of animals in jars of formaldehyde, of Indian lances and sailor’s bundles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To advance his case, Tisquantum told other Indians that the foreigners had hidden away casefuls of the agent that caused the epidemic, and that he could manipulate them into unleashing it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“My mother packed it for me. But that’s a good idea—we should find an Indian grocer. Stock up on some of our favorite snacks to energize us while we write.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Coloureds, too, were oppressed, but unlike the Indians had no mother country except Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the life-insurance agent who had issued a policy to Henry Roan, which had named Hale as the beneficiary, testified that Burt had also recommended another American Indian to target with an insurance-policy scheme. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But the omission is symptomatic of the complete failure to consider Indian motives, or even that Indians might have motives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But like the Indians I’d rather discover my own medicines. They were smart enough to make natural remedies, and they knew what would cure you or what would kill you.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You’re just an Indian pretending to be white” was what Corky liked to say. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

From the other side of the street I watched as the Indian woman, startled, stopped in her path, at which point the dog leapt up and seized the end of the sari between its teeth. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We were camped at a lofty spot called Indian Grave Gap, between two brooding summits—the one tiring to recollect, the other dispiriting to behold. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Carla and I are to play the parts of two Indians welcoming the Pilgrims. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

People accustomed to keeping domesticated animals lacked the conceptual tools to recognize that the Indians were practicing a more distant kind of husbandry of their own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His ambition was to protect the South American Indians and preserve their culture, striving for a peaceful coexistence. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

That’s one more thing people don’t know about Indians: we love to talk dirty. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Blanca told her husband the strange things she had observed among the servants, he replied that they were Indian customs to which she should pay no heed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the Egyptians, the Indians had rope stretchers to survey fields and lay out temples. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And it was a system that Indians were abandoning in ever-rising numbers at the time when Europeans came. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only her skin is a little darker than most grandmas, like she’s got mostly Indian in her. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

His tough and authoritarian leadership style was necessary in the wild where disease, Indian attacks, and the inhospitable environment relentlessly threatened everyone’s lives. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Bail was another example of the sliding scale of apartheid: £250 for whites; £100 for Indians; and £25 for Africans and Coloureds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, for instance, after passing the abandoned Indian village, they had heard a noise coming from the trees above. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The “earth art” of the prehistoric Indians of North America, the so-called Mound Builders, is comparable to the megalithic monuments of Europe in terms of the effort involved. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whiteman, who was part Indian, was fascinated by Indian lore and had been following the archaeological excitement in Folsom, two hundred miles to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He also noted that the warm Indian summer weather and the press of a large number of people made the room stifling. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were flat and hard, like I imagined Indian bread to be. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the Pilgrims, the Indians’ motives for the deal were obvious. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Until Columbus, Indians were a keystone species in most of the hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"He struck her!" a West Indian woman screamed into my ear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could Indians descend from Europeans if they did not inherit their genetic makeup? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unlike Europeans, Indians did not live in constant contact with many animals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They believed they had found traces of ancient Indians in modern blood—a first step, possibly, toward rewriting the history of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The Indian, instead of starving to death...enjoys a steady income that turns bankers green with envy.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Have I nothing better to do than cure insect bites for ‘little Indians’? The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was deserted—the French didn’t see an Indian village for two hundred miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If I had once questioned the willingness of the Indian community to protest against oppression, I no longer could. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved her mouth from the phone and said to my father, “Indians stay in the back rooms.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Indian reservations were also on the itinerary; Irwin would schedule his arrivals for the day after government checks came to be sure that everyone had betting money. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the National Party was throwing open its doors to nonwhites and was busily recruiting disaffected Coloureds and Indians. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following this cold wind, which kept blowing through the Indian summer of 1932,1 sail down the basement stairs to find my grandfather, one morning, counting money. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the Indian accounting firms even go about marketing themselves to American firms through teleconferencing and skip the travel. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

However, as Indian mathematicians had made quite clear, zero was the embodiment of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Look to the Southeast, where, as Taylor has noted, “colonial societies sustained a slave system more oppressive than anything practiced in Europe” and “the slave-owners relied on Indians to catch runaways.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

These Indian squadrons began to enter the plaza to the accompaniment of great songs, and thus entering they occupied every part of the plaza. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Smith walked the horse by, an ancient Indian leaned up and looked the horse over. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An honest-to-goodness spy!” cried Lettie as the three of us crouched behind the wooden Indian in front of the hardware store. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So they did everything they could to discourage the Indians—indentured workers were beaten by their employers, arrested, kept to certain areas, or separated from their families. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Beautiful, in fact, but I’m afraid of all the Indians who aren’t dancers and singers. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

How often does a reservation Indian kid hear that? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

A far more important line evolved by way of the Aramaic alphabet, used for official documents of the Persian Empire, into the modern Arabic, Hebrew, Indian, and Southeast Asian alphabets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Located near the confluence of the Missouri, Illinois, and Mississippi Rivers, the Indian city of Cahokia was a busy port. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Theodore Roosevelt had already warned what would befall an Indian who refused his allotment: “Let him, like these whites, who will not work, perish from the face of the earth which he cumbers.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“My cousin got lucky and won some Indian land in the lottery, in the north part of Tennessee. Grows corn.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Joan pulled up an Indian hassock and began to dial down the long list of Cambridge doctors. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Native Americans were not granted the right to vote until the Indian Citizenship Act was passed in 1924. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A few days after Captain Newport arrives we hear shouts of “Wingapo!” and look to see Indians paddling to shore in three canoes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His voice had just a bit of an Indian accent coating his American one. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That was because workers were clattering in to remake the lower floor for a display of American Indian art, and a Buddhist student group was chanting in the small sanctuary upstairs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We watched other American Indian persons making pipes out of the stone. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In colonial times, as many as one out of every four trees in between southeastern Canada and Georgia was a chestnut—partly the result, it would seem, of Indian burning and planting. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was an Indian man called Rashid and he worked as a doctor. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to his surprise, he discovered that overall Indians have fewer HLA types than populations from Europe, Asia, and Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The Indians were oppressed like us. They wouldn’t collaborate with the Man.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In Chapter 19 we shall trace it across the Indian Ocean to Madagascar, while in Chapter 15 we saw that ecological difficulties kept Austronesians from establishing themselves in northern and western Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the Indian population of Hispaniola declined from around 8 million, when Columbus arrived in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gist’s knowledge of native languages would help when Washington wanted to talk to the Indians. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great white bearskins lay about underfoot, and the only furniture was a lot of low beds covered with Indian rugs. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Fishing and hunting were an integral part of it, just as it had been part of the life of the Indians, who had practically disappeared from the Eastern Shore by 1750. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And plenty of drunken Indians have killed other drunken Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She and my mother, I had heard my mother say, were two of the four West Indians in that whole section of Michigan. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something was shaking the deck A gaur—an Indian wild ox—exploded out of the rain and thundered by me, terrified, out of control, berserk. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember you had to go through the Indian Room to get to the auditorium. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The letters were black with rage— at the Indian who dared to speak up and question the ethics of Englishmen. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Like most Afrikaners, they thought that because many of the Communists in the ANC were white or Indian, they were controlling the blacks in the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How much grander would have been the tumult if Indian societies had survived in full splendor! 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tryouts for the possible revival of the Under Fifteens were set for Monday afternoon on the sandy field behind Indian Creek Elementary. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Even before his arrival in America, he had read a musicological essay published in Germany in 1882 called ‘On the Music of the North American Indians’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In other words, just one group of paleo- Indians colonized the Americas, but it did so two or three times. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although there had been a handful of Indian students at Fort Hare, they stayed in a separate hostel and I seldom had contact with them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roots of Indian mathematics are hidden by time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There are currently about 245,000 Indians answering phones from all over the world or dialing out to solicit people for credit cards or cell phone bargains or overdue bills. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the original cabins of the Westward Movement and, like the Iroquois Indians, the pioneers put furs down for floors, not boards. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty years later, he raised his estimate of Indian deaths—and hence of the initial population—to forty million. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But only white people and Indians use them.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith has been put in charge of trading with the Indians. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Even if their skin was as brown as mine, they claimed they had no Indian blood and proudly held up their names and clothes to prove it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a school on the reservation border filled with the poorest Indians and poorer-than-poorest white lads. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one ever did that until the Indian soldiers came around.’ Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And let me tell you, we Indians were the worst of times and those Beardan kids were the best of times. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She called Mom from St. Ignatius, Montana, on the Flathead Indian Beservation, and said, “Hey, Mom, I’m a married woman now. I want to have ten babies and live here forever and ever.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They rounded up the Indians in camps, the women and children and whatever they could carry on their backs, and marched them west of the Mississippi. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We were poor enough to get free lunch, but I didn’t want to be the only Indian and a sad sack who needed charity. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many American blacks proudly say they have some “Indian.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had discovered when they were in New Zealand and in Australia that they were not treated badly because they were Indians, but respected as Americans who fought in the war. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indians first came to South Africa in 1860, as indentured servants, to work the sugarcane fields of Natal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’m the opposite. I feel like an Indian American here, and when I’m in India, like just an Indian. I see them both as equal and valid for me.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

All told, there were one hundred five Africans, twenty-one Indians, twenty-three whites, and seven Coloureds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say Indian field, not great-grandfather’s field, because the white oak, like my hemlock, is at least three hundred years old, maybe four. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One writer has estimated that Indians developed three-fifths of the crops now in cultivation, most of them in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She yells back at him, ‘This guy’s an Indian?’ Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Collins’s approach wasn’t “You must remember this variation of the King’s Indian Defense, which is much stronger than what you played”—rather, he relied on a kind of osmosis. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I am different. I mean, literally; we’re the only Indian Muslim family in town.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The jurors were willing to punish the men for killing an American Indian, but they would not hang them for it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After we left an island, there were always fewer chickens and goats and pigs than thered been when we Indians got there. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day in the West Indian store I heard two teenagers saying that the kid had died. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the United States, Brazil had a population of different Indian tribes native to the land. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Below them, shut in by the tall houses, was the village square, crowded with Indians. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, those writers would likely have been thinking of Indians without him—the essayist Montaigne had noted the same antiauthoritarian attitudes a century earlier. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

True, the conquistadors did not want the Indians to die off en masse. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in my loneliness. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They came one, then another, and another, echoing between the buildings of the apartment complexes behind Indian Creek Elementary at about ten-forty Sunday morning. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"I know, but the one where the pictures are, or the one where the Indians are?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

As a result, Jamestown and the other Virginia forays survived on Indian charity—they were “utterly dependent and therefore controllable,” in the phrase of Karen Ordahl Kupperman, a New York University historian. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her face went into a big smile as she checked her side mirror and changed lanes to get around this little Indian dude in an old beat-up truck. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

What kind of job can a reservation Indian boy get? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some Indian fishermen, whose language they could not understand, told them with signs that they had not seen anyone pass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Joe James,” she said, and explained that James was a young Indian logger and fisherman who lived in the forest near Bellingham, Washington. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jody lay in his bed and thought of the impossible world of Indians and buffaloes, a world that had ceased to be forever. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Astonishingly, it also swept westward across the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa, resulting in the colonization of the island of Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And there was also the possibility that the Indians were still nearby, hiding and watching every move the men made. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Aztec survivors were demoralized by the mysterious illness that killed Indians and spared Spaniards, as if advertising the Spaniards’ invincibility. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"No one wants the Jews. Not even America. Americans have no right to criticize us. They rounded up their Indians, you know. Put them on reservations." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Could an outsider—even an Indian one—understand this place half as well as someone born and raised here? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the environmental movement gathered steam in the 1960s, he said, white people had discovered that Indians were better stewards of the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the break, Special Agent bolted out ahead of him, while Woolf dropped Indian Broom behind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Sorry. We never had 'slumber parties' in Mumbai. Indian kids usually don't spend the night at other people's houses unless they're family. I wouldn't know what to do." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was taken to Groutville, where the chief lived, and we met in the house of an Indian lady in town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rebeca took charge of domestic order, while the Indian woman took care of the bakery. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Work kept her busy, and she and Laxmi had begun having lunch together at a new Indian restaurant around the comer, during which Laxmi reported the latest status of her cousin’s marriage. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Harrison assembled Indiana and Kentucky rangers—seasoned Indian killers—and some US Army regulars. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And I think that President Wingfield is right; the Indians have been very friendly and welcoming to us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Local Indian groups regard this latter proposal with suspicion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We Indians had plenty to share about the things we’d been through—although we Navajos never told any Indian who was not a code talker anything about our secret. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know only, like, five Indians in our whole tribe who have never drunk alcohol. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Rondon scouted the area across the river, he found what was left of another abandoned Indian village. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Molly had always thought the Indians rebelled like guerrillas, scalping and pillaging. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The men recognized it as a message from the Indians. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Three Indian messengers bring it to the fort gates, and I rejoice to see Captain Smith’s handwriting. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And I saw the squat man shake his fist angrily over the uplifted faces, yelling something in a staccato West Indian accent, at which the crowd yelled threateningly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there the Arabs learned about Indian numerals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“They say in the town that there’s been no word from the detachment since they stopped at Hadley There’s been new Indian raids up Deerfield way.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian mathematician Bhaskara wrote in the twelfth century that “there is no square root of a negative number, for a negative number is not a square.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She sat down on the ground near me, embraced her knees with her arms, and rested her head upon them; in that attitude she remained silent as an Indian. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And why was Mrs. Guest sending all the white children and the Indian children home right off like that? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The nursing students, who are all West Indian like Nurse Monica, and young, unlike her, absolutely adore him and give him big smiles, which increases his activity. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In silent Indian file they began the descent. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Old man Ku’oosh left that day, and as soon as he had closed the door Tayo rolled over on his belly and knocked the stalks of Indian tea on the floor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian was “in a great rage”; he realized, one assumes, that the foreigners had cheated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The cat sprang from the arms of the sleepy little Indian boy and ran towards the old dog, who was already on his feet, blinking and peering around rather confusedly. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It should be read, if you can imagine this, in the voice of someone with an Indian accent trying to imitate an American or a Brit. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

First Avenue was where Indians—the cream of Alexandra’s quarantined society—lived, behind their sell-everything stores and produce stalls, which were the ghetto’s main shopping centre. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peck had accumulated a personal mythology that included Indian wars, gold mining, and mercenary executions, and was known to carry a derringer pistol in a hidden shoulder holster. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And a little later in the season there would be red and yellow stands of Indian paintbrush. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Siriona Indians of Bolivia and the Brazilian Yanoama people don't have words for anything larger than three; instead, these two tribes use the words for “many” or “much.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I fear both the Tigers of Detroit and the Indians of Cleveland.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The combination of good soil, successful agriculture, and evidence of past Indian inhabitation was what had brought the scientists to the farm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first race took place August 11 in the lagoon, with Zulus swimming against South American Indians. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Within a few centuries, the Indians of the eastern forest reconfigured much of their landscape from a patchwork game park to a mix of farmland and orchards. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The opportunity to do so came when one Thursday morning, my mother left to go job hunting at the Indian place. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malaria, starvation, Indian attacks, and vicious bites from piranhas, snakes, and insects were all part of the job. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“The fact he represented himself to be an Indian would make him get along pretty well with the Indians, wouldn’t it?” another lawyer skeptically remarked. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All were important foods to the Indians of eastern North America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indian areas were segregated from colored areas, which were segregated from black areas—all of them segregated from white areas and separated from one another by buffer zones of empty land. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They sent people to America to learn not only how to speak English fluently, but also to learn our American Indian languages. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only real question in the minds of either side was whether Indian spiritual forces could affect Europeans, and vice versa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The new settlers have attacked Indian villages and made enemies where we used to have friends. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

You will also find that you might make friends more easily with other internationals, Koreans, Indians, Brazilians, whatever, than with Americans both black and white. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was how I began placing my bets with West Indian Archie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He notices the Lennon obituary pinned to the bulletin board, and then a cassette of classical Indian music he’d bought for Gogol months ago, after a concert at Kresge, still sealed in its wrapper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had been blown off in Singapore in ’42, within the first week of his running away from home to join the fighting ranks of the Indian National Army. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians carrying the litter, and those escorting Atahuallpa, never abandoned him: all died around him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thema, who was editor of the newspaper the Bantu World, fiercely criticized the campaign in his paper, claiming that Communists had taken over the ANC and that Indians were exploiting the Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were Indian shopkeepers, traders, and rice growers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We had not even thought he was any kind of Indian at all before he spoke. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bates’s widow said, “We Indians cannot get our rights in these courts and I have no chance at all of saving this land for my children.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Soon we saw the entire plain full of Indians, halting periodically to wait for more Indians who kept filing out of the camp behind them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta had cooked up in her head that she was Pocahontas now that we’d heard the story of Augustus joining into his Indian family. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Joe himself hopped out, grabbed a shovel from the back, and proceeded, in a few minutes, to divert water from Indian Creek into the Roybal ditch that led to his illegal field. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fast-paced Indian song pulses as Bollywood actresses in crimson outfits twirl in perfect coordination in front of a stage decorated with yellow and red flowers. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I imagined that I was an Indian princess. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

‘You can’t guess. It was his mother. The trick is that you don’t think about a Indian being a lady.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

An Osage delegation, including the chief Wah-Ti-An-Kah, was urgently dispatched to Washington, D.C., to petition the commissioner of Indian Affairs to abolish the ration system. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t ask, don’t tell only applies to proper Indian Muslim boys. With limits.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In Durban, Indian workers walked out of factories while in the Cape thousands of Coloured workers stayed home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that European American “civilization” is superior to those of the American Indians and of the Africans who were enslaved for economic gain is called white supremacy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The same year, a restaurant in the South banned Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi’s personal doctor from its premises because of his dark skin. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And some folks just found it difficult to compare an Indian to a white guy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been a presence in the summer months, looking after the Indian corn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Before leaving, he quickly grabbed some tools and beads, which he planned to give to the Indians as a peace offering. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The business of the Indian excavations was completely secret, since they were part of the historical heritage of the nation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians, he grumbled, “believe what they please and no more”—a practice dangerous, in Hennepin’s view, to a well-ordered society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There is cultural meaning in every aspect of Indian music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Indians must therefore have arrived before 500 b.c. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In recent years a growing number of researchers has argued that Indian societies there had enormous environmental impacts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Shrugging, she added, “I mean, not crazy crazy. We do both live pretty close to each other, and our parents are part of the Indian community in NorCal, which isn’t that huge...” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure what kind of Indian I am. I’m not really sure what I am at all anymore.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Everybody went bright brown, like Red Indians, with startling teeth and flashing eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found three young white men who were the sons of Indian traders. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

South of the Rio Grande, Indians had converted the Mexican basin and Yucatan into artificial environments suitable for farming. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That is, cattle were domesticated independently in India and western Eurasia, within the last 10,000 years, starting with wild Indian and western Eurasian cattle subspecies that had diverged hundreds of thousands of years earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A dark, businessman- looking West Indian often would sit at one of my tables. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the smell of candlefish fat, ubiquitous in later Northwest Coast Indian cookery, even then hovered over the first visitors’ fires. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Of the Surinamese cotton plant, she wrote, “The Indians put its green leaves on wounds in order to cool and heal them.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Indians had insisted that they were not mere workers but were citizens—and finally the government could not resist. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The next thing I knew West Indian Archie was standing before me, cursing me, loud, his gun on me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its lower branches slumped to the ground, bent from the weight of kids who swung on them, playing cowboys and Indians. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But then, it seemed as if the Indians had been helpful to the settlers as well, so I didn’t see why they needed civilizing. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It’s a mean word, in the same way that their names for us—longos, or dirty Indians— are mean. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

West Indian Archie had the kind of photographic memory that put him among the elite of numbers runners. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, she’d heard the whispers about how Bryan was responsible for killing that drunken Indian, she said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Go,” he said, in the other Indian words. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Indians hold it sacred, and why not, on the day that we can get Lucas to eat a bowl of atole then he shall be cured. Is that not sacred?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not one of the original ‘Indians,’ but a volunteer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are probably Carib Indians on the island, Captain Newport tells us, but we will give them beads and our soldiers will stand guard at night, and we’ll be safe. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Those germs undermined Indian resistance by killing most Indians and their leaders and by sapping the survivors’ morale. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I want desperately to sound coolly detached but not like I’m trying too hard to sound coolly detached—basically Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not but less insolent and more Indian. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He asserted that the Communists were more dangerous now that they were working underground, and that Indian economic interests were in conflict with those of Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soft and beautiful West Indian accent and way of speaking weren’t always dear. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cut off from civilization, the Nhambiquara Indians were adept at hiding from plain view in the rain forest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“There was Indians so much around there,” she testified. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Papa said that Gandhi wants a united India, that we are all Indian no matter what faith we follow. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Their guide was an Indian girl who wore a sari and whose long hair was bound into a single braid that hung down her back to well below her waist. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every other week one of the aunties from the Indian Association came over to help Mamma dye her roots black while Papa was at work. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“For a certain hot, yet unassuming, and often exacting Indian chick.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Once, in Florence, on seeing a lovely little Italian princess, I said to her father, “But she doesn’t look Italian. It may seem strange, but she looks like an American Indian.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that meant that Wellpinit, that smaller, Indian town, was also a place of mystery. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The guy in the West Indian restaurant called me in and I shot him standing over the stove. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

His Spanish was so heavily salted with Zapotec, the language of Oaxaca’s biggest Indian group, that I could not make out a word of it; Ramirez Leyva had to translate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a lot of trouble just for an Indian; maybe it would be too much trouble, and they would let him go. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The estate included an entire village, whose inhabitants, most of them Indian, were its sharecroppers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Indians who adopted it were setting aside millennia of tradition in favor of a new technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Inside an alder bush, just ahead of him, a family of wrens was darting and hopping about, their tails sticking upwards like Indian head-dress feathers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But can one readily dismiss the different Indian societies who lived in these places? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some Mexicans were dark skinned, Indian from the way they dressed, but some light-skinned Mexicans got on too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the final window, a red Indian received a piece of parchment from three white men who stood in noble postures, their hands open in gestures of negotiation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Indian girls ignored me, too, so I was used to it. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They knew important people, the Richardsons: the mayor, the director of the Cleveland Clinic, the owner of the Indians. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Neither the Indians nor the Pilgrims had our contemporary under standing of infectious disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The press trumpeted the notion that I had been betrayed by white and Indian Communists who were unsettled by my suggestions that the ANC must become more Africanist-oriented. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the French and Indian War, Washington and other people living in America thought of themselves as British, subjects of the king, and citizens of their colony. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, when people compliment their grandmothers, especially their Indian grandmothers, they usually say things like, “My grandmother is so wise” and “My grandmother is so kind” and “My grandmother has seen everything.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

This grand Indian irrigation system near Pisco, a coastal town south of Lima, fell to developers’ bulldozers—the photograph dates from 1931. back from the coasts, which were now lined with farms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

W'as it because somebody took her baby first to a white man’s house, then to an Indian’s house? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons unknown, Indians heaved up a ring of eleven irregularly sized mounds, most of them connected by a ridge, on a hill overlooking the course of the Ouachita River. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She could hear Laxmi clearly, her sentences peppered every now and then with an Indian word, through the laminated wall between their desks. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s another school on the west end of the reservation, filled with poor Indians and poorer white kids. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I always think it’s funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, because they were Indians, the Marines put them into scout companies. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's lonely being the only Indian woman around. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

An agent from the Office of Indian Affairs soon picked up another report: Mollie wasn’t dying of diabetes at all; she, too, was being poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His work done, Gandhi returned to India, where Satyagraha became the most effective weapon in the fight for Indian independence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Drones can be most easily found in bagpipes music, Indian Classical3l music and other musics that use instruments that traditionally play drone notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s four oceans—Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic. They’re different from each other.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Similar criticisms apply to many of the new scholarly claims about Indians, according to Dean R. Snow, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was a key member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and had heard I was opposed to the May Day strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor is the frequent referral to Indian examples in the writings of Montaigne, Locke, Voltaire, Jefferson, Franklin, and Thomas Paine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Night had already fallen, and our cavalry were continuing to spear Indians in the fields, when we heard a trumpet calling for us to reassemble at camp. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As a diplomat, he negotiated with the confederacy of Five Nations in 1744; in those days, knowledge of Indian ways was an essential part of the statesman’s toolkit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because the houses we wanted to build would be on Indian reservations, we were refused help. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No European ever saw sumpweed growing in Indian gardens, because it had disappeared as a crop by the time that European colonization of the Americas began, in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wants to prove that I’m a nice Indian girl from a good family. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Navajo men took their guns, packed supplies, and rode their horses in to report to the Indian agent. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Historians had long wondered how many Indians lived in the Americas before contact. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the Texan had gone back for the truck; he wanted to take the Indian back. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Doctors’ Pact precipitated a series of nonracial, antigovernment campaigns around the country, which sought to bring together Africans and Indians in the freedom struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At great personal risk, many Indian leaders attended the conference even after they knew that influenza was in Montreal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This is the country over which the three travelers passed, and it was in the fall that they traveled, in the days of Indian summer. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually it will be the name of the Indian prime minister’s Italian wife. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For example, in 1837 the Mandan Indian tribe, with one of the most elaborate cultures in our Great Plains, contracted smallpox from a steamboat traveling up the Missouri River from St. Louis. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Vaughan who is well acquainted with the Indians stated that his real interest in the case was to...have the guilty party prosecuted,” a private detective wrote. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Amazonian Indians, the Yanomamo among them, abandoned their farm villages, which had made them sitting ducks for European diseases and slave trading. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Gallup was that kind of place, interesting, even funny as long as you were just passing through, the way the white tourists did driving down 66, stopping to see the Indian souvenirs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian man in the brown suit smiled and offered Hassan his hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn one February morning, when they were in the Indian Ocean, the lookout’s cry gave warning, “Sail ho-o-o-o-o-o! On the starboard bow!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are forbidden to give the Indians muskets or swords, but Captain Smith is giving them cannons? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

That requires trigonometry; the Indian version was probably derived from the system that the Greeks had developed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Some of us wanted nothing more than to become one of those heroic Indian athletes like Jim Thorpe, who wore a sports uniform and did great things on the playing field. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So little evidence has emerged of Indians fertilizing with fish that some archaeologists believe that Tisquantum actually picked up the idea from European farmers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Can an Indian have a legacy in a white town? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was Father Carole, confident he wasn’t about to be mowed down by a bunch of angry Indians, who answered. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The law was due to take effect the next year, and it required every Indian—man, woman, and child over the age of eight—to register and be fingerprinted. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In history we learn about the pilgrims in Plymouth Plantation in 1621 and the food they ate, wild turkeys and corn and five deer brought to the feast by the Indians. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When others took up European intellectuals’ books and histories, images of Indian freedom exerted an impact far removed in time and space from the sixteenth-century Northeast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Long time ago, though, it was land, and that’s where the Indians came over from. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She walked by the El Fidel, that day she quit, and she could hear them laughing and whooping it up inside, so she knew they were Indians. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But educated Indians have been held back so many years by both poverty and a socialist bureaucracy that many of them seem more than ready to put up with the hours. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

As his successors discovered that the Americas were not part of Asia, Indians became a dire anthropogonical problem. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

West Indian women stood by their pepperpot kettles stirring fragrant stews, while the hot corn girls walked up and down the street. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When these amateurs heard that the ancestors of Indians must have come to the Americas thousands of years ago, a surprising number of them decided to hunt for the evidence that would prove it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It would be a perfect fall day, an Indian summer day, warm and mellow. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if you were listening with your ears you’d know he was half Indian.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s called Skeleton Hill because it was an ancient Indian burial ground, duh,” he said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

All my friends in elementary school were Pakistani and Indian. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The most interesting store was housed in a little shanty which had been there when the Indians prowled through Williamsburg. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Baba was in Malaysia, a drunk neighbor banged on our door shouting, "Marry me, my Indian princess!" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I am the only Indian in the history of the world who ever lost a fight with himself. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I nibble on the bread and a soft cheese wedge and watch my movie, marveling over the fact that I actually picked an Indian movie over all the American choices. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fem. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the rest—old Betonie and his stargazing, the woman in her storm-pattern blanket—all that was crazy, the kind of old-time superstition the teachers at Indian school used to warn him and Rocky about. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the guys, the Indian one, caught her eye and made a creepy-gross gesture with his tongue, then burst out laughing when she looked away, heart thumping. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And, completing his idea of perfection, there were no resentful Negroes or wild Indians. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if you’re a West Indian and like to eat stuff that burns your mouth out it’s okay, but I don’t dig it. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I made Chapter Eleven go through Indian Village, passing our old house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Although Europeans bemoaned the lack of salt in Indian cuisine, they thought it nourishing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Trail of Tears and Death, as one Cherokee sage put it later, not without cause, not without that Indian flair for rhetoric. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But I think it was also because we were Indians in what was still, even in the Marines, a white man’s world. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the ceremony, I walked back to the river and watched it meander on its way to where, many miles distant, it emptied into the Indian Ocean. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sachems of Indian groups on the eastern seaboard were absolute monarchs in theory. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ancient Egyptians and Assyrians, and modern Indians, tamed cheetahs for use in hunting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry didn’t so much worry me, but what if the younger brothers discovered that Granddaddy was a trove of weird and fascinating facts about Indian fighting, the larger carnivores, hot-air ballooning? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Its hundreds of Indians, soldiers, and workers slept in tents. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That tulip tree where Indians gathered looked like a king. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a stunned silence—broken by a wail of terror from the smaller boy, who flung himself at his mother—and then a quick excited chatter from the Indians. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nervous time: every afternoon, one of his force later recalled, several thousand Indian soldiers approached in canoes to within “a stone's throw” of the Spanish and mocked them as they labored. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One way to summarize the views of people like Erickson and Balee would be to say that they regard this picture of Indian life as wrong in almost every aspect. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Indians hold up baskets, showing us they have brought us something. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had her collection of antique Indian jewelry, which she kept in a self-storage locker. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the state of Oklahoma—Indian Territory—the boy could not escape the prison of the book. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was prepared to accept Indians and Coloureds provided they accepted our policies; but their interests were not identical with ours, and I was skeptical of whether or not they could truly embrace our cause. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He disliked Indians, he thought of them as sly, dishonest people. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe James, he explained to Cullivan, was a young Indian logger with whom he had once lived in a forest near Bellingham, Washington. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a spasm of pain like a blast of sudden cold, saw the patient high-boned Indian face, that beautiful woman, indelible suffering. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some time around 1000 a.d., the Indian agricultural trinity of maize, beans, and squash appeared in the area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Bureau of Indian Affairs put most everyone on pensions, and so they drank and forgot all they knew. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indians could henceforth only live in Indian areas, Africans in African, Coloureds in Coloured. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the young Indians I talked to about this were not offended but took it as an opportunity to have some fun. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

For Luma, it was difficult to imagine ever feeling safe on the field at Indian Creek Elementary. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It had not yet been turned over to Indians and small boys. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians in De Soto’s path, if researchers are correct, endured losses that were anomalously greater. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

No one passing outside the shop must guess that toward twenty boys were at that moment dressing themselves as ‘Indians.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the first cowboys in a wild and desolate land which they took from the Indians. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we stepped into the foyer, we found Baba sitting by the wood-burning cast-iron stove with a short, balding Indian man dressed in a brown suit and red tie. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To read a little about one such tradition, please see Indian Classical Music: Tuning and Ragas. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Hrdlicka’s zeal for completeness made him accumulate as many Indian skeletons as possible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Coloured groups at the time were more concerned about the race classification and job reservation, issues that did not affect Africans and Indians to the same degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Atahuallpa came two other litters and two hammocks, in which were some high chiefs, then several squadrons of Indians with crowns of gold and silver. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"It wasn't so long ago the government paid two hundred dollars bounty for every Indian killed by settlers." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

At Nitta’s farm the Canadian Indians were already busy when they arrived. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She looked like the brilliant Indian flower Dimple knew she herself would never be. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Surgery and hospitalization account for six months of that year; the remainder he spent recuperating in the forest home, near Bellingham, of a young Indian logger and fisherman. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any Indian who did not have proper registration papers could be fined, jailed, or deported. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When we cross the town square, the Indian ladies, with long black braids that look like rope, try to sell us nopales. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nor that the young Rousseau should put some of his earliest thoughts about society and the individual in an operetta about Columbus and the Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Special Agent, who like Indian Broom was owned by the A.C.T. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this time she was really going to send some money to Emma, and she wasn’t going to waste any more time fooling around with Indian war heroes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Celia once told him the Indians in her village carried charms to keep from being carried off by the sky. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only March, but it was warm and the field was full of wild crocuses, jonquils and Indian paintbrush. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “one path” Washington identified required the Indians to recognize that contesting the expansion of the white population was suicidal. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Other Indians rode the enameled wooden horses of the Midway carousel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, the very man whose name symbolizes non-violence here today has stated: ‘ ‘Our nation was bom in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians’ contracts called for seven hours’ work for about twenty-four cents a day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

After lowering a torpedo filled with nitroglycerin into the belly of the earth, the muddied workers would detonate it, occasionally turning up a fragment of an ancient American Indian spear or an arrowhead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His face was thinner than she remembered, the cheeks were sunken, like an Indian brave’s. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I walked into the room, which had been converted from an office space into a fabulous nightclub for the evening, with pink spotlights, zebra-print sofas, palm trees, cocktails, and a delicious Indian buffet. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this is what Reverend Hunt means about making decisions out of love—love for our newfound Indian friends, love for our fragile New World colony. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

All through the war, I did research in ship libraries and borrowed books from Marine officers who were history buffs and who liked the idea of an Indian being a historian. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pattern was so consistent, Neumann told me, that Indians must have been purposefully reducing the number of deer, raccoons, and turkeys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I took them to the Indian restaurant across the street from my apartment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“That was one of the ways I found out how life is different for an Indian and a white man,” Danny said. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a comic drawing of a young Indian boy in an embroidered kurta, holding something—a sword?—above his head. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Nothing is that simple,” he said, “you don’t write off all the white people, just like you don’t trust all the Indians.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

During those centuries, Indians were greatly influenced— culturally, technologically, intellectually—by colonists. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Hey, the Indian lady forgot her stuff,” she hears as the doors shut, and as the train pulls away she hears a fist pounding on glass, but she keeps walking, pushing Gogol along the platform. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I work at the local NBC station,” said an Indian woman off stage left, her hand in the air. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For supper, the diets were the same, except that Indians and Coloureds received four ounces of bread while we received none. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretty hard for a strange Indian to walk down there without getting stopped every five miles. Nobody’s going to bother a boy.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But “Indian” was not a category that Tisquantum himself would have recognized, any more than the inhabitants of the same area today would call themselves “Western Hemisphereans.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What I’m interested in discussing this evening is the future of the Indian Creek Conservancy District and that Indian Creek Dam.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In London, most people were used to Indian accents, even if they didn't like them much. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the offer was merely a “toy telephone,” as all parliamentary action by Indians and Coloureds was subject to a white veto. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hurt a lot of Indian kids when I was a young teacher,” he said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Understandably enraged, Indians attacked Dermer several times on his journey south; he was eventually slain on Martha’s Vineyard by another former Indian abductee. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maize can't reproduce itself, because its kernels are securely wrapped in the husk, so Indians must have developed it from some other species. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Historians who project large Indian populations, Low Counter critics say, are committing the intellectual sin of arguing from silence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He glanced to his right and snuck a glance at the Indian woman. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

La Push is the tiny Indian reservation on the coast. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I hope you don’t mind my asking,” Douglas said, “but I noticed the statue outside, and are you guys Christian? I thought you were Indian.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We Indians know how to celebrate with our dead. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just Ali standing behind us, and Baba with this slight Indian fellow who looked a little like a mathemat­ics teacher. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Dude, what do you want to get into the school for? You’re an Indian. Indians go there to die.’ The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They were always attended by the same impassive, silent Indian, who constantly sucked a green ball of coca leaves that was his chief sustenance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some argued that although it was popularly assumed that tigers lived in Africa, this was a myth and they were native to Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In such an environment even the native Indians lacked virility. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once we left the industrial precincts of Durban, we moved through hills that offered majestic views of the surrounding valleys and the blue-black waters of the Indian Ocean. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians left the area the day before the collapse of the dam. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the 1990s Black reviewed thirty-six studies of South American Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But after all the anxiety, their first contact with Indians went surprisingly easily. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In 1605 three laughing Indians in a canoe literally paddled circles round the lumbering dory rowed by traveler George Weymouth and seven other men. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This is what the Indians used to do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were too cheap to rent space at an RV park, so they parked along Highway One near the Indian Key Bridge and camped there for three nights. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A cute boy who happened to be Indian and my producer? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

By the time Elizebeth and William first saw the letters, British and American officials already knew the broad outline of the plot, and many Indians who had worked with the Germans had been arrested. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When scholars first increased their estimates of Indians’ ecological management they met with considerable resistance, especially from ecologists and environmentalists. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The face in the mirror looked like a sick Indian. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Various teams of Indians who had slipped across the twisted passes of the border undetected were working for Jean de Satigny. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed there, sitting, like a bigger fool, with my back to the door, thinking about West Indian Archie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I already know all about the Pilgrims and the Indians,” I hiss in return. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Those mounted plains warriors and Navajo sheepherders and weavers now figure prominently in white Americans’ image of American Indians, but the basis for that image was created only after 1492. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the sign was a picture of an Indian smoking a pipe. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

If we had to depend on the gentlemen, many of whom still don’t want to dirty their velvet, we would be at the mercy of the Indians for many more weeks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Indian community was outraged and launched a concerted, two-year campaign of passive resistance to oppose the measures. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian was gone, but there was a young rider with long black hair who wore a similar ring of trophies over his hide vest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“So I take it this isn’t your first feature film starring an Indian wedding,” he remarks dryly. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

An Indian boy about her age was gazing down at her with the weirdest, goofiest grin on his face. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He also explained to me why he and some other Indians had it in for archaeologists. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the 1960s and 1970s Francis L. Black, a virologist at Yale, conducted safety and efficacy tests among South American Indians of a new, improved measles vaccine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Are you saying the Indians cooked their hands in hot wax?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Indian system of numbering allowed them to use fancy tricks to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers without using an abacus to help them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When microbes arrived in the Western Hemisphere, he argued, they must have swept from the coastlines first visited by Europeans to inland areas populated by Indians who had never seen a white person. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Osage Indian dabbed his blanket at the spot and squeezed the liquid into a container. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I know that he’s a lot more than the suitable boy trifecta—Indian, Muslim, and from a good family. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Every time I visit he prepares a South Indian veg­etarian feast. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She extracted a photograph from the crowded back of the piano, of her daughter with two Indian women, their skin dark and weathered, their smiles showing missing teeth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And my sister had married one of those crazy Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The US. government planned to break up Indian Territory and make it a part of what would be a new state called Oklahoma. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The kitchen crew, headed by a West Indian chef named Duke Vaughn, worked with almost unbelievable efficiency in the cramped quarters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian Ocean flashed incredible colors of emerald jade and opal in the shallow water surrounding the Maldive Islands, then on to the Burma coast and lush green jungle, followed by mountains and coastline. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He encouraged his generals and soldiers to marry Persian and Indian women. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier writers thought of Indians as important, though uncivilized, but later books froze them into a formula: “lazy, childlike, and cruel.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t see you with some Indian guy,” Astrid had said dismissively over salads at City Bakery. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t eat these things ourselves—Mom’s West Indian culture viewed them as unclean—but we could turn a buck off of them. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few other minor crops made the trip later, including tobacco, domesticated in Amazonia, then exported north to become the favorite vice of Indians from Mesoamerica to Maine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If so, their absence would reveal nothing about whether Indians ate the species. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Jews, half-Jews, and WASPs have nothing to do with diversity, Mrs. Olinski. The Indian does. But we don't call them Indians anymore. We call them Native Americans." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Indian classical forms more than make up for an absence of harmony with highly complex and intricate melodies and rhythms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Besides, I only wear Indian clothes for special occasions in Mumbai. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We forget that North America also supported populous Indian societies in the most logical place, the Mississippi Valley, which contains some of our best farmland today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it was built on Indian graves and every bit as much a ruin as the temples of the Maya. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher--shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And then I noticed that the only Indian who hadn’t turned his back on me was Rowdy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They filled his biographical vacuum with suitably large Wild West myths: knocked-over banks, rodeo stardom, daring exploits in the Indian wars. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote of an Indian maiden, beautiful and reserved, who sat alone upon the bank of a still stream, surrounded by eternal twilight and ancient trees, waiting . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winslow didn’t know that fish fertilizer may not have been an age- old Indian custom, but a recent invention—if it was an Indian practice at all. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When Indian boys came of age, they spent an entire winter alone in the forest, equipped only with a bow, a hatchet, and a knife. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He doesn't speak Spanish, just an Indian language. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows that deshi, a generic word for “countryman,” means “Indian,” knows that his parents and all their friends always refer to India simply as desh. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the Greeks, the Indians did not see squares in square numbers or the areas of rectangles when they multiplied two different values. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"It is at least a fair assumption,” a widely used college forestry textbook remarked in 1973, "that no habitual or systematic burning was carried out by Indians.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And in the late 1800s, the authorities began to make a new offer to Indian workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Thayee says the British invented high tea, but Indians and Pakistanis perfected it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

This law — known as the Ghetto Act — was a grave insult to the Indian community and anticipated the Group Areas Act, which would eventually circumscribe the freedom of all South Africans of color. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indians were here far longer than previously thought, these researchers believe, and in much greater numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was Mexican American, so he considered himself colored and Indian. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Playing Indian geography meant you could figure out who was who before you even saw them. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Even though Miss Ella Pearl, Miss Trotter’s mother, was as colored as my mother, she told the census taker to write ‘Indian.’ Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I was just wondering which would be the winner in a contest such as this—an Indian fighter’s intuition or that wily old boy, coincidence,” Roger wrote later. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indian families stick together like Gorilla Glue, the strongest adhesive in the world. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cahokia represented the first time Indians north of the Rio Grande had tried to feed and shelter fifteen thousand people in one place, and they made beginner’s mistakes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was thin and statuesque, and white men said she looked as though she was Indian or Hawaiian. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Indians “died in heapes as they lay in their houses,” the merchant Thomas Morton observed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mama, despite her being half German, half Indian, knew a lot about slavery. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The aspens and birch trees, however, were still bent like Indian bows. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

To get a better sense of the decimation, McAuliffe looked at the Authentic Osage Indian Roll Book, which cites the deaths of many of the original allotted members of the tribe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

So they worked—across the equator, to the Cape, and into the Indian Ocean they slaved—Nat and the men before the mast. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took fifteen years, but in 1979, the authorities announced over the intercom system that the diet for African, Coloured, and Indian prisoners would henceforth be the same. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald has an Indian colleague at work who just went to India for his honeymoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though our cots were more comfortable than the beds most of us had been given at Indian boarding school, few of us got any real sleep that night. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were of course already separated from our white colleagues, but the separation from our Indian and Coloured comrades within the same non-White facility seemed like madness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not trust the expressionless Indians who waited on her with such evident ill will and seemed to make fun of her behind her back. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, he believed, ancient Indian skeletons should also differ from those of their descendants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Indian medicine. People over in Japan and places like that think it cures everything.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No, not much—but then later, when the troops were hunting Indians and shooting children and burning teepees, it wasn’t much different from your mouse hunt.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Mr. Rao introduced himself as calling from an Indian software firm, the U.S. executive said to him, “Namaste,” a common Hindi greeting. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But if this were an old Indian movie, I couldn’t do this.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Taking advantage of the Indians' recent good experience with English visitors, he invited people to come aboard. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Just like many other things in the bilagaanaa world, that housing rule was unfair to Indians. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

These people had struggled for a quarter of a century to reach their understanding, and now their Indian Summer was before them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following the slow tank at a discreet distance, I had ridden my bike from Indian Village on the East Side all the way to the West. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But the Indians were not property; they were not defined by their years of labor as indentures. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Down lower, where an Indian Creek feeder streamlet crossed under the road and the valley floor’s marshy fields began, at least a dozen bats in the air actually frightened him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the fires began to burn low and the Indians made preparations for the night, and still his companions showed no signs of moving, the young dog grew restless. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian men gather around one of the cannons to lift it. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her face once had dark, very Indian features, but it was puffed out of shape now, sensual still, but well over there on the sad side of her early forties. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On either side of them, in the Curandero Valley, aspen trees were a lovely buttery yellow, shivering in the Indian Summer breezes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the canoes of these Indians were fishing in the Bay. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s white, of Irish background, and I’m brown, a mix of my Egyptian mother and Indian father. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But I’m still an Indian, and we like to be scared. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And only an hour behind schedule, which is basically on time for an Indian wedding. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

American Indians became a growing impediment to white European “progress,” and during this period, the images of American Indians promoted in books, newspapers, and magazines became increasingly negative. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was not allowed either to visit the Indian and Coloured beaches, which were somewhat closer and better than the black beach. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even while he was speaking an idea dawned upon him, and he said with unconscious simplicity, in a different voice, and with the naïveté of a child: “That’s quite true, upon my honour. Honest Indian!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The two indisputably independent inventions of writing were achieved by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia somewhat before 3000 B.C. and by Mexican Indians before 600 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am not property,” the Indians were showing. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

A floating reception force of more than four thousand Indians—two hundred war canoes, each carrying twenty or thirty people—greeted the Spanish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They left the storm behind and sailed north into the Indian Ocean. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode up on his horses with his associates, five men of disreputable mien, led by a fearsome Indian scout who wore a necklace of shriveled ears. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

With no Indian villages to rob for supplies, the expedition ran short of food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If an indentured worker chose to stay past his or her contract and settle, the worker was slapped with an annual tax, which was a heavy burden for Indians, who barely survived on their wages. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Plus, Anastasia just signed a new contract to decorate the home of the mayor of Indian Hills. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Now that I could read, he often took out a book of poems by the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the Americans had one, the Soviets had to have one, and then the British, the French, the Chinese, the Indians, the Pakistanis ... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Lupe of the two French islands east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pacific Northwest Indian artists carved beautiful masks, boxes, bas-reliefs, and totem poles within the dictates of an elaborate aesthetic system based on an ovoid shape that has no name in European languages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Go right on down to the tip of Manhattan Island that this devilish white man stole from the trusting Indians for twenty-four dollars! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Maxine asks him if his parents want him to marry an Indian girl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir, how will we make a settlement if this is Indian land? Will we have a war?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And once I arrived at Reardan, I became something less than less than less than Indian. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Among the farmhands, though, was a member of the Blackfoot Indian tribe named Levi, who behaved very differently from the coarse miners—being polite, gentle, responsible, sober, and well spoken. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was galling, since some had even questioned whether Bechu, who wrote in such polished English, really was an Indian. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Seated in the Negro gallery amongst other servants, Indians, and white boys banished for whispering and tricks, she appeared no different, no more peculiar in her circumstances, than any lady’s maid. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I remember her going to India for spring break and returning with a bindi on her head and photos of her smiling Indian cousins. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t know if the Coach liked Indians or not. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he was lucky, an Indian film would be on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Indian indentures were lied to, they were tricked, they were no more than cheap labor to keep the plantations running—but they were still individuals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I know more about that than you. I was surgeon in the Fort fight with the Indians. War is an evil, Matthew. Believe me, there can no good thing come of bloodshed.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“My father put me in the army, in the West, against the Indians.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was always listening to slightly eerie Indian music in his earbuds, and he was constantly telling her that her “aura wasn’t vibrant enough” and she should drink more tea. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the group suddenly came upon an Indian village, their minds were somewhat eased when they saw that it had just been abandoned. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Auntie woke him up and gave him a cup of Indian tea brewed dark as coffee. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian community in Natal understood the message the whites were sending: Work here, don’t stay here. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit ate up the length of rein, bounding past Special Agent and leaving Woolf and Indian Broom flat-footed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far in this section, I have mainly described the economic and political history of Andean Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ophie fell quiet as the story of a man falling in love with an Indian princess on a rugged frontier began to unspool. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Do the Carib Indians chop people up for their cook pots and eat them?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but also because the Indian people here were our ancestors. Because Sitting Bull was here, and Crazy Horse.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Youth League was marginally more friendly to the Indians and the Coloureds, stating that Indians, like Africans, were oppressed, but that Indians had India, a mother country that they could look to. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was yet another person bound up in the “Indian business.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When the baron expatiated upon the superior practices of Europe, the Indians were baffled. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It stood well back from the rattle and bustle of Marlborough Street, with its glassy-eyed copper Indian on top of the cupola and its carved and colored lion and unicorn of Britain over the door. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor did bankers, including the apparent murderer Burt, who were profiting from the criminal “Indian business.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When a commission was convened in 1897 to investigate the conditions on the estates, Bechu—the Indian the planters hated—came before the judges to share his evidence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Cute, kid. We’re leaving now, but don’t skip town. We’ll be seeing all of you Angels again very soon. Especially you, Miss Indian Corking Stove. Especially you.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Married. You know—for ever. They say ‘for ever’ in the Indian words; it can’t be broken.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the Americas, Indians spoke some 1,200 separate languages that have been classified into as many as 180 linguistic families. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Behind an overgrown forsythia bush was a plaster Virgin Mary as tall as their waists, with a blue painted hood draped over her head in the manner of an Indian bride. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the Indians maintained and expanded the grasslands by regularly setting huge areas on fire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

An Indian woman opened the door, a pordy, kindly housewife who offered them tea. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But we were stunned because almost two thousand Indians showed up that day to say good-bye. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And one of the mainstays of Franklin’s printing business was the publication of Indian treaties, viewed then as critical state documents. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked to have grown taller during the short time he was gone and he carried himself more like a white man than an Indian. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given passenger pigeons’ Brobdingnagian appetites for mast and maize, one would expect that Indians would also have hunted them and wanted to keep down their numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Black men, I'm proud of you," the West Indian woman shrilled. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were not Bronx rules, these were West Indian rules. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There she sat, in her robes, smiling, an extremely proud and handsome woman, with Africa, Europe, and the America of the American Indian blended in her face. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The Indian Being, undefined and indefinable, finding itself alone, fearing death, yearning for company, began to swell in size, rearranged itself inside, and then split into two identical halves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word for “a piece of sugar” in the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit is khanda, which, as it passed through Persian to Arabic to Europe, became candy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Truth be told, she was growing tired of the whole scene at Indian Creek—the chaos on the field as well as the menacing crowd in the parking lot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Smallpox and other European diseases didn’t exist in the Americas, and so every Indian was susceptible to them in this way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the local Indians, numerous and well armed, killed eleven colonists and drove the rest back home within months. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Was West Indian Archie, I began to wonder, bluffing a hype on me? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that West Indian Archie was sick, living up in a rented room in the Bronx. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Armed Forces was yet another place where Indians were not wanted. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why were we sixty-seven Indians being sent out this way, to some destination no one would tell us about? Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amy’s chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less antique. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He told me that he was only paying 6 per cent for this money, and he could make a great deal more out of it by loaning it back to the Indians.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that she was particularly anxious to embark on a journey of near-certain doom, but there was always “just one more thing!” when it came to Indian aunties and uncles. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Indian set off at the slow trot typical of his race, and she remained in the house with the other servants, whom she feared far less than that strange individual with the courtly inclinations. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a weave! It really is an old Indian remedy!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

After the Indians left, the industries and businesses in and around their territories closed up too: small-time fisheries, hunting camps, tourist traps. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There are even a number of present-day human cultures in which collective fatherhood is practised, as for example among the Barí Indians. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The accent is West Indian, and a ground-level camera comes up on two dark, somewhat heavy and middle-aged WOMEN. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

It existed in many forms and was embraced both by those who hated Indians and those who admired them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Indian campaign became a model for the type of protest that we in the Youth League were calling for. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All four of us turned into water nymphs and danced around the cool spray, just the way it must have been when Indians danced circles around blazing fires. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, he’s not an Indian! I call him Mullet Fingers ’cause he can catch mullet with his bare hands. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was quiet here, the sun had grown sultry, and although magpies were gathered in the cottonwoods by Indian Creek, they made no noise now. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would help anyone who came, be they Japanese, American Indian, or Latino, and whether they were in the United States legally or not. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even so, Dr. Xuma and other African leaders spoke at several meetings and along with the Youth League gave full moral support to the struggle of the Indian people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we reservation Indians don’t get to realize our dreams. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She introduces herself with a thick West Indian accent. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Contact with Indians caused Europeans considerably more consternation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their authors often were adversaries of the Indians they wrote about, usually did not speak the necessary languages, and almost always had an agenda other than empathetic description of indigenous folkways. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the two men tramped through snow-covered woods, several “French Indians,” as Washington called them, suddenly appeared. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rising river could have forced them inland, or disease may have wiped them out, or another Indian tribe could have attacked and killed them all. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Just like the term solfege which is made up of the syllables “sol” and “fa,” sargam is comprised of the syllables sa re and ga, the first three pitches of the Indian scale. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Sugarcane plantations stretched in all directions, worked by imported slaves and native Arawak Indians who were pressed into service by Dutch and Portuguese plantation owners. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The village, like many others in the region, was populated mainly by Yanomami Indians, a forest society on the Brazil-Venezuela border that is among the least Westernized on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It will be Gogol and Sonia’s first journey outside of Calcutta, their first time on an Indian train. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since funding for schools came from counties and local communities, blacks and Indians, who had been economically disadvantaged, could not offer the quality of education to their children that whites could. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"It's been four years for us and we still haven't moved. They don't give promotions to Indians. Your husband is just like mine—all talk and no money in the bank." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Mostly freed slaves. Some white folk—mostly Spaniards, espaholes. Lots of Indians from different tribes—Creek, Seminole, Cherokee—all living together. There is nothing like it en todo el mundo—in all the world.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily’s husband was West Indian, and they were members of the Communist Youth Movement. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elk are big and Indians may have butchered them where they fell, meaning that few elk carcasses would appear in middens. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Gogol notices in certain restaurants that they are the only Indians apart from the serving staff. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They sought to cut all links with Indian activists and to move the ANC in the direction of a more confrontational strategy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm named after one of my mom's writer heroes, but I think Grandma Rose likes it because it's French, and not Indian. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Big, full lips and a long, thin Indian nose. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

An almost naked Indian was very slowly climbing down the ladder from the first-floor terrace of a neighboring house—rung after rung, with the tremulous caution of extreme old age. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their lives were similar enough to contemporary hunter-gatherers that perhaps they should now be simply called Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And I started wearing glasses when I was three, so I ran around the rez looking like a three-year-old Indian grandpa. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ben wore a bathing suit, his father’s flight jacket, frogman flippers, and an Indian headdress. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the wake of the first Earth Day in 1970, a group named Keep America Beautiful, Inc., put up billboards that portrayed an actor in Indian dress quietly weeping over polluted land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

All my exhaustion slips away when I see Miss Anderson and the big Indian man from the lecture standing there. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But what could the former slaves dor1 Every Indian who accepted the paltry wages specified in the indenture contract lowered the price an African could charge for his labor. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Wood did not conceal his admiration for the way Indian mats "deny entrance to any drop of rain, though it come both fierce and long." 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians’ ears. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But to become a stockvel member required large amounts of startup money, the resourcefulness and shrewdness of an Indian trader and the elusiveness of a double agent, during police raids. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first vision was of the street outside the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And since Las Casas historians, clerics, and political activists have debated whether Europeans and their descendants in the Americas are morally culpable for the enormous Indian losses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Gather up some Indian tea for me,” old Grandma called to him from the back room. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A full-blooded American Indian was invariably appointed a guardian, whereas a mixed-blood person rarely was. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After all, I was a reservation Indian, and no matter how geeky and weak I appeared to be, I was still a potential killer. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the thing is, I don’t think Indians are nomadic anymore. Most Indians, anyway.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The supporting cast was mostly disenfranchised Indians, Mexicans, and cowpunchers, all of whom possessed horsemanship and livestock skills honed on the vanishing frontier. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was considered not just a feather in the cap, but the entire head-dress of a full Indian chief. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parallels with the Indian experience are striking. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I thought Indians were supposed to be vegetarian,” she whispers to Alan. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the Indians leave, all of the baskets of food have become ours. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When we got home, I wrote the signs I wanted in my lined-paper tablet with the Indian head on the front, using the pencil Grandma sharpened for me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From around the tiny shop full of imported Indian clothing, parents gave Mamma approving looks. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then, do an internet search for “Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

As far as biological prerequisites for apple domestication were concerned, North American Indian farmers were like Eurasian farmers, and North American wild apples were like Eurasian wild apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tribal and band societies in Eurasia were largely confined to the Arctic reindeer herders, the Siberian hunter-gatherers, and the hunter-gatherer enclaves in the Indian subcontinent and tropical Southeast Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

However, just as Johnny Manuelito had said, what most young men found challenging was easy for us Indians. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But everyone knew that an Indian summer could only last so long. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The shaved-headed man, of Indian or Pakistani descent, had been unfailingly courteous to me, which was the only reason I was trying to help him with this problem. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had placed rattles on the horses to terrify the Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He called Josiah by his Indian name and said, “If he had known then maybe he could have told you before you went to the white people’s big war.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This sent the Indians into paroxysms of laughter, and he had to repeat his performance time and time again, until he was tired and lay down, panting but happy. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a referendum of November 1983, the white electorate endorsed P. W. Botha’s plan to create a so-called tricameral Parliament, with Indian and Coloured chambers in addition to the white Parliament. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How often do you hear the words “Indian” and “college” in the same sentence? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though the Indian number system was useful for everyday tasks like addition and multiplication, the true impact of Indian numbers was considerably deeper. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Being Indians, we were used to having white men shout at us and tell us we were worthless and stupid. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For as long as she could remember, Aru had lived in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And, yeah, my grandmother was smart and kind and had traveled to about 100 different Indian reservations, but that had nothing to do with her greatness. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Do you know how many white strangers show up on Indian reservations every year and start telling Indians how much they love them? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He fired his gun again, but the Indians were still heading his way. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was just as bad for the Chamorros as it had been for us Indians. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a wooden Indian outside his store which stood in a threatening stance on a wooden block. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

These new Indian hires had accounting backgrounds and were trained by Reuters, but they were paid standard local wages and vacation and health benefits. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In summer she’d sorted berries, cut runners, pulled weeds, and kept one eye on the Indians and Japanese who yearly picked on the Heine farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of our soldiers tries to grab a chunk of meat right out of a basket, but the Indian man holding it puts up his hand abruptly to stop him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

One Sunday in the spring of 1983, I walked into a small book­store that sold used paperbacks, next to the Indian movie theater just west of where Amtrak crossed Fremont Boulevard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Celia, clearly not well versed in the way of certain Indian families, could not seem to wrap her head around this fact. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Immersing herself in a third language, a third culture, had been her refuge— she approached French, unlike things American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, or expectation of any kind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The men look up from their work to watch us—three English boys in dirty shirts and worn-out slops and one naked Indian princess, tumbling like cartwheels all over the fort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Grub and I joined Derek in his house on the shore of the Indian Ocean, and many of the students squeezed into our little guest house. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope that’s not active,” she said in a slightly British Indian—inflected voice. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He took out deliberately over trails that Indians and old timers warned him against. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Framers of the Constitution, like most North American colonists, lived at a time when Indians were large presences in their lives—ones that naturally influenced their ideas and actions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Whether the cause was the Pilgrim God, Pilgrim guns, or Pilgrim greed, native losses were foreordained; Indians could not have stopped colonization, in this view, and they hardly tried. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the front of the wardrobe somebody had painted a picture of Indians coming out of the woods, carrying bows and arrows, wearing warpaint and bright headdresses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But under the code, if West Indian Archie had gone out of the door, after having humiliated me as he had, I’d have had to follow him out. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may seem odd that a book about Indian life before contact should devote space to the period after contact, but there are reasons for it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What do you want to go see an old Indian smoking a pipe for?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When she could not remember what an Indian child, Nne’s close friend, had scored on a recent test, she called Nne to ask her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Several scout companies were on Pavavu and all of them had Indians. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do they call him Mullet Fingers? Is he an Indian?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t follow any Indian trails or colonial post roads. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later Miranda went to an Indian grocery in Central Square which also rented videos. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“They also said there will be Carib Indians on the islands in the West Indies,” Richard continues. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dad said the government raised a stink but later backed off because the Indians had better lawyers. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We went out across the muddy road to church, and I climbed up into the balcony where the children, Indians and black people sat. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are brownstones—limestone and maroon houses that stand like fence posts and always have Indian men refurbishing them—and everybody goes crazy for those, pays millions of dollars to live in them. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I was young, American schoolchildren were taught that North America had originally been occupied by only about one million Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Has Captain Smith been captured by the Indians as well? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I was twelve, I fell in love with an Indian girl named Dawn. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians had formed two circles, one inside the other, and were hopping up and down. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

So our little intrigues played out while women whispered over the backs of the sofas and men, after supper, passed the port and listened to tales of the wars against the French and the Indians. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

De Soto was still able to see some of the densely populated Indian towns lining the lower Mississippi. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So their American designers could be on the screen speaking with their Indian software writers and their Asian manufacturers all at once. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Why the Indians call it the United Estates when there was no United Estates back then, Mrs. Brown?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Grandma always was threatening to skin someone alive, or draw and quarter him, or scalp him like a red Indian, or spank him till his bottom blistered. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad went out into the hall to see who it was and I heard voices and then in walked a tall Indian man in jeans and a green shirt. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have felt lonely in this setting, remarking that they were the only Indians. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s that nest everyone’s so riled up about,” he said to Dan Martin, a Mohawk Indian whose balance and fearlessness on high girders made him one of the most valuable bridge workers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But why did this lead Holmes to assume that Indians must have migrated to the Americas in the recent past, a view springing from biblical chronology? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And then he goes up to the Horseshoe Club in Pacific Grove, and he tells people how the Indians drove off the horses.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not want to break into his story with my own memories about some of the mistakes I’d heard white men make while trying to talk Indian. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can only venture a guess, by analogy with witnessed events in modern times when steel-toting white farmers collided with stone tool-using hunter-gatherers of Aboriginal Australia and Indian California. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Miss Annie went off down the hill again, the last thing she said was, “I’m going to find out if anybody knows how those Indians knew!” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Despite its British origin, it had been baptized with the very Indian name of Covadonga. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, as with many crimes against American Indians, the question of which government entity had jurisdiction over the Osage murders was confounding. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Take “democratic” England—when 100,000 black West Indians got there, England stopped the black migration. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Threatening to do so was merely his idea of a joke, like dying of pneumonia, busting Colonel Moodus in the nose or challenging Doc Daneeka to Indian wrestle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Doctors wanted it so that an X-ray taken in Bangor could be read in a hospital in Bangalore, without the doctor in Maine ever having to wonder what computers that Indian hospital had. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Indian and European mitochondrial DNA are strikingly different. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She also glimpsed the sinister power of the Indian and the subtle mockery of the servants, and felt herself a prisoner in the anteroom of hell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the white settlers in Natal were happy to have cheap Indian labor, they were dead set against allowing Indians to live there as equals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

As maize swept in, Indians burned and cleared thousands of acres of land, mainly in river valleys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Which they did with the ridiculous conceit that the Indians had been the authors of an ecological mega-disaster. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then and now, being an “Indian killer” was often regarded as heroic. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians in Canada did not have the wheel or telephones, and ate the hearts of their enemies in the heathenish belief that it would give them courage. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tarun Das was heading the Confederation of Indian Industry when the wall fell in Berlin, and he saw its ripple effect felt all the way to India. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But instead of simply increasing the African quota, the authorities reduced the amount of sugar that Coloured and Indian prisoners received by half a spoonful, while adding that amount for African prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

White learned of the statement that private investigator No. 28 had obtained from the Kaw Indian woman, in which Rose had confessed to being the murderer. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Gogol buys Indian comic books to give to his American friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bright and serious, Ismail Meer was born in Natal, and while at law school at Wits he became a key member of the Transvaal Indian Congress. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adding twenty or more captured Indians thus meant that the ship was sailing with at least twice its normal complement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the year 700, Indians as far away as New England and Canada farmed maize. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Massasoit and the rest of the Indian company waited out of sight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Maycomb County High School principal was a Mr. Charles Tuffett, who to compensate for his name, habitually wore an expression that made him resemble the Indian on a five-cent piece. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Indians had come to the Americas ten thousand years before Clovis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

NOTE: Some music traditions, such as Indian and medieval European, use modes or ragas, which are not quite the same as scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She moved gracefully across the stage, wearing a shawl around her shoulders, echoing the way Mollie used to wear her Indian blanket. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Their thoughts were occupied by weightier names: world-record holder Indian Broom; speed demon Special Agent; and above them all, the magnificent Rosemont, king of the East and conqueror of 1935 Triple Crown winner Omaha. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the house— no, the run-down shack—of poor people, Indian people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The settlers began raiding the Indian villages, killing and burning, with the goal of exterminating the native people. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’d find a buffalo nickel, a Mercury dime, or an Indian head penny. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“The Atlantic Ocean is brown, sort of, and the Indian Ocean is blue.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His voice was low, and when he walked, he walked easy in a certain way he knew, the way he had learned Indians walked. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The quiet strength of the Indian community shook the South African government. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

If Dobyns was right, disease claimed the lives of 80 to 100 million Indians by the first third of the seventeenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Among his closest friends was Conrad Weiser, an adopted Mohawk, and the Indians’ unofficial host at the talks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Winnie had been invited to open the annual conference of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, and at my instigation she repudiated these rumors in no uncertain terms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps the first Indians traveled by boat, and didn’t need the land bridge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He made a brief excursion up the Bill Williams River, a tributary of the Colorado, then continued downstream through the Colorado River Indian Reservation, the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Golf was a novelty, bringing the cream of society together around a tiny ball that was struck with a stick, just as the Indians had done two hundred years before in these same, places. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got a good part Indian in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Plenty of the old white guys still give me the stink eye just for being Indian. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

What was he doing a million miles from nowhere, sitting in a freezing pond beside a bizarre Tlingit Indian with a stick? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Some locals thought that Comstock, with his aquiline nose and tan complexion, might be part American Indian—an impression that he did little to discourage as he built up his legal practice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Northeastern Indians were appalled by the European propensity to divide themselves into social classes, with those on the lower rungs of the hierarchy compelled to defer to those on the upper. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the invitation of a friend, he went to stay at a cabin on the Cahuilla Indian Reservation, in southern California’s high desert. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mom heaved the dramatic sigh of a mother from an Indian movie whose daughter desires to marry a simple peasant instead of the rich, suitable suitor. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

My grandmother had no use for all the gay bashing and homophobia in the world, especially among other Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

West Indian Archie’s territory for sure, but I don’t figure it matters. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The field was formidable, featuring Seabiscuit’s old rivals Aneroid and Indian Broom, plus Today, with Woolf up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has not stopped talking about Kareem and his proper Indian manners since I got home. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

On an individual level, they were almost as vulnerable as Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For much of the last century archaeologists believed that Indians came to the Americas through the Bering Strait about thirteen thousand years ago at the tail end of the last Ice Age. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They liked to see Indians and Indian dances; they wanted a chance to buy Indian jewelry and Navajo rugs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A Marine recruiter was coming to Fort Defiance looking for Indian volunteers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many were exported to New England that most colonies there tried to ban or restrict the trade—the southern Indians were regarded as troublemakers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Instead of landing on Brisbane, Skylab broke up, with some parts falling into the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Each member nation had its own specific interests because each had had different experiences in the previous 150 years of British and French intrusion, including the French and Indian War. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He told a Harvard colleague he was “anxious to get this whole Indian circus off my hands.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Luma had promised her players’ parents that she would keep them safe; she wasn’t sure she could keep that promise at Indian Creek. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But their parents insist on inviting close to three hundred people, and serving Indian food, and providing easy parking for all the guests. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I had learned Mr. Pirzada was not an Indian, I began to study him with extra care, to try to figure out what made him different. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A U.S. senator from Oklahoma called Palmer “the most eloquent Indian alive.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This is Indian land, and they do not want us here. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Their gene pool was correspondingly restricted, which meant that Indian biochemistry was and is unusually homogeneous. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Also imagine that no matter how rude, unhappy, irritated, or ornery the voices are on the other end of the line, these young Indians are incessantly and unfailingly polite. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our numbers evolved from the symbols that the Indians used; by rights they should be called Indian numerals rather than Arabic ones. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Grandma had a thin, angular face and an endless store of faux Indian jewelry, all silver and turquoise, which hung in clumps from her spindly neck and fingers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

People had been drinking out in the hills on wood-hauling roads and sheep-camp roads since they first bootlegged liquor to Indians. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Indians denied the visitors permission to land; refusing even to touch the Europeans, they passed goods back and forth on a rope over the water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The root of the hoary, decumbent, and less elegant, but larger-flowered Hedysarum mackenzii is poisonous, and nearly killed an old Indian woman at Fort Simpson, who had mistaken it for that of the preceding species. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina's Russian grandfather on the Volga and Marinas Indian great-grandfather in Guyana were linked by sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was renowned for being the first in Europe to coax the West Indian pineapple to flower and grow fruit. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hale told Spencer that he’d pay him and his gang at least $2,000 to bump off a couple—an old man and his blanket, meaning an Indian woman. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They flowed out of the high country, and all three entered Indian Creek either before, or right around, Milagro. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way home we linked up with another group, mostly girls and women, who had just raided an Indian shop nearby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine his village, Werowocomoco, and hope that soon I will be allowed on one of Captain Smith’s exploration trips so that I’ll see an Indian village for myself. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In light of Rose’s statement to Morrison and the fact that the rooming house owner had confirmed Rose and Joe’s alibi, the Kaw Indian’s statement that Rose had confessed to her seemed puzzling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"It's obvious. The town's full of white people. And a few Indians, like us." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The episode of the mummies, the photographs, and the hairless Indian in Louis XV shoes that had prompted her flight from her husband’s house had grown hazy with time. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, at a restaurant back in San Francisco, she’d made the mistake of tasting a ghost chili pepper that came with a plate of Indian food. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His own platoon had been the first ever all- Indian platoon in the history of the Marines and his instructors had not known what to expect. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the second of three daughters and remembered how her younger sister had died of tuberculosis one winter; they’d buried her on Indian Knob Hill in the Lutheran part of the cemetery. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of “nonsense.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Using a different method, Jorge Mora-Urpi, one of Clement’s collaborators, concluded that Indians might have bred the modern peach palm by hybridizing palms from several areas, including the Peruvian Amazon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Just 8.4 million Indians, Kroeber suggested, had lived in the entire hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we looked at the animals and sometimes we looked at the stuff the Indians had made in ancient times. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Wren had lived among the Indians...and had gotten away with it in remarkable shape,” White told Hoover, adding that his undercover men seemed to be able to “withstand the rigor of the life.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the same way, preserved Indian lore throws a brilliantly colored but indirect light on the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then all the Indians got spooked and quit, whereupon the padre locked the church from inside. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The brute struck that gentle woman, poor thing!" the West Indian woman chanted. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had heard stories about the horrors of slavery, which she passed on to me, and knew something about the slaughter of American Indians. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the most direct way, Indian liberty made indigenous villages into competitors for colonists’ allegiance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

All through Indian school we had been taught that white men knew everything. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had, for years, taken notice of the lightness and the durability of the old cedar Indian canoes that still occasionally plied the waters of the Puget Sound. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was defending Indians, black people, and buffalo. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

This chapter and the next will explore how two different Indian societies, the Wampanoag and the Inka, reacted to the incursions from across the sea. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was also heading for a secret entrance to the mine area we kids had discovered years before, playing cowboys and Indians. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The traders waited for favorable winds to let them cross the Indian Ocean directly between East Africa and India. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, they had suddenly stumbled upon an Indian village, passing palm-leaf shelters along the shore and some sticks poking out of the water, which was all that was left of the Indians’ fishing trap. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Many believed that even if Indians died soon after conversion, good could still occur. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The more viable option was transportation to the unsettled lands of the American West, along the lines of the Indian removal program adopted over forty years later. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’ve since thought that West Indian Archie may have been trying to scare me into running, to save both his face and his life. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indian parents, by contrast, regarded the years before puberty as a time of playful development, and kept their offspring close by until marriage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indeed, more than fifty of the first colonial villages in New England were located on Indian communities emptied by disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If Monte Verde was a minimum of 12,800 years old, Indians must have come to the Americas thousands of years before that. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Disease not only shattered the family bonds that were the underlying foundation of Indian societies, it wiped out the political superstructure at the top. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This was a significant step toward the unity of the African and Indian movements. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another of the show’s staples was an Indian attack on an old stagecoach, the Deadwood Mail Coach, with Buffalo Bill and his men coming to the rescue. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Most likely she’s near the Indian Ladder where Outlet Falls plunges off the cliff. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noises sounded something like an Indian war dance in an old movie on TV, thought Ralph, puzzled. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The next day transportation was arranged for her by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Julie packed her few possessions in a moosehide bag and walked to the airport with Martha. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she appeared, I could see from her picture, as a young Indian maiden—dark just like me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Braying laughter punctuated the comment as the hipster Indian guy went walking by, joined by the goateed white guy Celia was paired with, who was high-fiving him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

You can speak, for example, of European classical or the European-American folk tradition, as opposed to Indian Classical50 , Japanese folk, or African-American musics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

This led many Delawares to join the Moravian church and settle in what came to be known as Moravian Indian villages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

For a few days the survivors had attempted to follow the Indians, till a heavy snow had made it impossible to go on. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The book she had pulled for me on the Quapaw Indians was actually pretty interesting. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She never really said, but she did like to read the Indian ones. You know the ones I’m talking about?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood of Indian Village lay just twelve blocks west of Hurlbut, but it was a different world altogether. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the Manifest townspeople could be found strolling the grounds of the homecoming celebration, enjoying these days of Indian summer. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Cape seemed next door to the East Indies—till a man had sailed the Indian Ocean. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The agent waited alertly for some movement down among the adobe houses, for some telltale stir in the shadows between buildings or in the cottonwood darkness along Indian Creek. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the people who live in those white towns don't always like Indians much. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I realized that, sure, Indians were drunk and sad and displaced and crazy and mean, but, dang, we knew how to laugh. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the black feather from my pocket and stuck it in one of my braids, like an Indian headdress. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

About one third of South American Indians, Black discovered, have identical or near-identical HLA profiles; for Africans the figure is one in two hundred. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Just as Indian mathematicians accepted zero while Europeans rejected it for centuries, the East embraced negative numbers while the West tried to ignore them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

After ten months of training and combat as a Marine, I was now seventeen years old— according to the records kept by the Indian agent. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest, blackest, worst cop of them all in Harlem was the West Indian, Brisbane. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter vehemently disagreed, suggesting that the Indians, Coloureds, and Africans were inextricably bound together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He acted as if he wanted to forget the whole thing and let the Indian go. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That’s about the worst thing you can do to an Indian guy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hosteen Mitchell also liked to talk with me about the similarities between our Indian beliefs and those of the Catholics. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I always open my door to Indians.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The most ruthless of the murder addicts was Av’s sister Lois, then just back from teaching for a year in Karachi, and a firm proponent of the hypocrisy of Indian vegetable eaters. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The crisis was perilous; but not without its charm: such as the Indian, perhaps, feels when he slips over the rapid in his canoe. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But the immediate cause for their breakaway was their objection to the Freedom Charter and the presence of whites and Indians in the Congress Alliance leadership. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, according to the Tribune, Indians recruited from Buffalo Bill’s show and from various fair exhibits would “peer cautiously” at the landing party while shouting incoherently and running “to and fro.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The thesis concerned the adoption of Spanish culture by the Pima Indians, who occupy a 372,000-acre reservation south of Phoenix. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They stared at me, the Indian boy with the black eye and swollen nose, my going-away gifts from Rowdy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

His face was a deep Indian brown but his hands were bleached and wrinkled from the chemicals in the pool. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I recalled the moment we’d found water, and even here, in this tunnel with the potential of being eaten by cannibal Indians still undecided, all the blood rushed away from my head. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But if you were an Indian, you attended to business and then left, and you were never in that town after dark. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

To cover up the affair, they accused the Indians on the reservation, even though everybody knew that they were peaceful and that anyone afraid to kill a chicken would hardly kill a man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the Indian women wore their finest saris, made with gold filigree that draped in elegant pleats over their shoulders. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Special Agent gave way grudgingly along the inside as Indian Broom rallied up the outside, not quite quick enough to keep up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Jean went out, she called the high-heeled Indian and for the first time gave him an order. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He married another mulatto, a woman who was half European and half Arawak, which is the Indian tribe indigenous to Jamaica, and had seven children. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Indian mathematicians did more than simply accept zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The volunteer fire department was called out by a neighbor, but the pumper truck driver, Edgar Paulsen, lost traction on Indian Knob Hill and had to halt to put on tire chains. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When it was pointed out to him that this was probably not the most prudent time to be taking treasures from Indian lands, Cope thought for a minute and decided to press on anyway. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Indian men keep coming, and I see our guards prepare to fire their muskets. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If these dang Indians had been this organized when I went to school here, maybe I would have had more reasons to stay. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She is Chief Powhatan’s daughter, the girl who saved Captain Smith’s life, the Indian princess who has more courage than a hundred soldiers. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you one of my Lincoln pennies for one of your Indian Heads,” I said. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Smith’s head—the stiff Indian hair, the Irish-Indian blending of dark skin and pert, impish features— reminded him of the suspect’s pretty sister, the nice Mrs. Johnson. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When an Indian village became too deep in its own filth, the inhabitants moved. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they knew that the Indians were too numerous to be reached by even the most zealous missionaries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We had colored kids and Indian kids, and even a handful of Chinese kids, too. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Well, I hate to argue with a Bussian genius, but Tolstoy didn’t know Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

But no: while our band of twelve-year-olds sat watching, each of us in camp T-shirt and Indian headband, we saw what Rebecca Urbanus didn’t. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“A war amongst ourselves will be the end of us—an end to the colony. We will not even have enough men left to fend off an Indian attack.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I knew that the action that he had called for was in fact a noble one; he believed that Africans should help their Indian brothers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nestled among colorful illustrations of colonial life was a succinct explanation of Tisquantum's role: A friendly Indian named Squanto helped the colonists. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

New Zealand, meanwhile, is part of the immense Indian Ocean plate even though it is nowhere near the Indian Ocean. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"What is this? You miss me being Indian? I thought all of you wanted me to become American. Except Anu, of course." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He's never watched our mother barter over fish and spices in Indian grocery stores. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Canadian Indians came down each year to join them at working for the hakujin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

These Indians who fought in the war were full of stories about all the places they’d seen. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Lose your courage now, and you’ll regret it. And frankly, how many more Indian lawyers do we need?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Sahagun is known as the first American anthropologist, for he labored for decades to understand the Indians he sought to convert. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

An important difference between the new Indian number system and the Babylonian style was that Indian numbers were base-10 instead of base-60. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

During Washington’s trek into the Ohio wilderness, an Indian attacks him and his companion, Christopher Gist. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The view that Indians left no footprint on the land is an obvious example. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When David and I entered Alexandra, we saw several burning government buildings, beer halls, schools, stores belonging to Indians and Chinamen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured explorers in their ships arriving at the shore and making deals with the true native New Yorkers, the Indians. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Sam Dale fit the Indians and Red Eagle jumped off the bluff. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She was a Spokane Indian and a bad liar, which didn’t make any sense. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the end half his gardens and half his fields shriveled in a drought, even though Indian Creek practically formed a swimming pool in his living room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That makes me a little bit Indian, don’t you think? Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The reporter added, “The Osage Indians are becoming so rich that something will have to be done about it.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He began to whoop like a wild Indian. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But the field at Indian Creek was like the refugees’ town square. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

De Soto “had a privileged glimpse” of an Indian world, Hudson told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Columbus was happy to make the Indians he met his slaves, a pool of free manual labor. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He also gave Rondon a bamboo horn and told Rondon to sound it and fire three gunshots in the air so the people would know that they weren’t Indians coming to raid their homes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Find out how the French are turning Indian tribes against the colonists. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about Rocky then; his baptismal name had been Augustine, and “Rocky” had been as close as he had wanted to come to the Indian name old Grandma’s sister had given him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cold River was on the northern edge of the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Whenever the Indians visited Rondon’s camp, something was usually missing after they left. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The field at Indian Creek Elementary couldn’t be used for league games. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As Seabiscuit pulled into the stretch, only Indian Broom and Aneroid remained to be caught. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do love that book. The movie, too. But it’s not only because I’m Indian, you know? Like, do you like every movie that’s about football?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

At first they lived in the corner of a barn they shared with an Indian family. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They’re going around calling everyone a terrorist. Even the Indian and Mexican kids.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Ay! What good does an education do them,” my father filled his coffee cup, “they only learn to speak like Indians. Gosh, okay, what kind of words are those?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She canceled practices and got the word out to her players not to show up at the field at Indian Creek until further notice. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Like the modal musics discussed above, individual Indian ragas are associated with specific moods. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Syllabus A included a course taught by Kathy, “A History of the Indian Struggle.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gathered in Sammy’s room, the one with the picture of Indians on the wardrobe, and sat on his bed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our day, beliefs about Indians’ inherent simplicity and innocence refer mainly to their putative lack of impact on the environment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And how quickly people would forget the art in the Indian and instead see only the commodity. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“I am really going to miss you Indians.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

That struggle, known in America as the French and Indian War, began in 1754, after Washington ambushed a small French force. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed as Indians, they harassed the Van Rensselaer agents and the state militia when they came into the mountains to collect the rent. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finds the term “African-American” too limiting, since it doesn’t reflect his white and American Indian heritage. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

An important Marine had already been thinking about making an Indian code. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the artifacts were crudely made, Abbott believed that they must have been fashioned not by historical Indians but by some earlier, “ruder” group, modern Indians’ long-ago ancestors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But every one of the seven chose the Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As Chaplin, the Harvard historian, has argued, New England Indians were indeed disconcerted by their first experiences with European guns: the explosion and smoke, the lack of a visible projectile. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In Tom Smith’s younger days, the Indians would watch him picking his way over the open plains, skirting the mustang herds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This idea was strongly affirmed by Manilal Gandhi, the Mahatma’s son and the editor of the newspaper Indian Opinion, who was a prominent member of the SAIC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years before, I had asked Pena what he thought the reaction would be if he discovered that ancient Indians were, in fact, not genetically related to modern Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was old army cavalry, Kentucky-bom, raised in the Indian wars; he was slow, he was careful, but he sensed something happening, a breathless something in his chest. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generations of settlers, mostly farmers, gained experience as “Indian fighters,” although they were not necessarily in the regular military. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

One day, while walking on Commissioner Street, I met Kathrada and he heatedly confronted me, charging that I and the Youth League did not want to work with Indians or Coloureds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He became a great Apache warrior who fought for Indian freedom. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Honeyman, who had fought heroically in the French and Indian War, told everyone that he was still loyal to England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought that the Indians were strange to be willing to trade so much food for a few glass beads. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

You know colored people and Indians mixed a lot, but sometimes, well, some Indians didn’t like it—the marrying, I mean. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a fierce battle during the French and Indian War, four bullets riddle Washington’s uniform—but do not strike his body. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Increasingly, he seemed to think of his home state in the same vein as the Indian tribes in his letter to the Cherokees. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I knew that many people, par-ticularly the minorities, whites, Coloureds, and Indians, would be feeling anxious about the future, and I wanted them to feel secure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Bien got word that tryouts would be at the field behind Indian Creek Elementary, he stopped by to have a look. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Patriots, disguised as Indians, dump tea into Boston Harbor in an anti-tax protest. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the New World as a whole, the Indian population decline in the century or two following Columbus’s arrival is estimated to have been as large as 95 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of things burning that aren’t meant to burn wafts across the city: shoe polish, rat poison, toothpaste, piano strings, hernia trusses, baby cribs, Indian clubs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A wracking cough pulls my attention away from my perusal of the Indian man. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But no one who wasn’t ready to die messed with West Indian Archie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was where the white people and their promises had left the Indians. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists dispute the timing and manner of Indians’ arrival in the Americas, but almost all researchers believe that the initial number of newcomers must have been small. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Why not Mayan and Aztec societies, which were accomplished in astronomy and captivated, as the Indians were, by large numbers? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stories of the American Indians made my father very sad. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted my chin to look up at his face as I had been taught to do in Indian school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mestizos called us longos, stupid Indians, dirty Indians, poor Indians. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba's still sounds American, and Ma's shifts between Indian, British, and American, depending on which one has more power in the moment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With training, a person could multiply with Indian numerals faster than an abacist could tally. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When they got to Oklahoma there were still more white people waiting for them, squatting on the land the Indians had been promised in the latest worthless treaty. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When disease swept Indians from the land, this entire ecological ancien regime collapsed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I heard high Javanese bells deepen in midring to Indian bells, Hindu Indian, American Indian. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maize swept into Africa as introduced disease was leveling Indian societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Washington had learned that colonists in the area recently had been killed and scalped, probably by Indians working for the French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, if it rained we’d go up to Tom Warrups and get him to tell us stories about the Indian wars and the brave things his grandfather, Chief Chicken, did. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had a collection of turquoise and silver Indian jewelry that she kept at Grandma’s house so Dad wouldn’t pawn it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken a strong interest in Indian affairs in Oklahoma, and he was trusted by the Osage; a reporter described him as a “kind-hearted, white-haired man.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It freed the Indians from the shortcomings of the Greek system of thought—and their rejection of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

While she spoke with a throaty German accent until her death, he had the choppy spouting speech of the West Indians. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In time the Indians realized that 1 + 0 was infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Most of them had known Carl Heine, a salmon gill- netter with a wife and three children, who was buried now in the Lutheran cemetery up on Indian Knob Hill. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was nine years since West Indian Archie and I had been stalking the streets, momentarily expecting to try and shoot each other down like dogs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he one of those people who thought all Indians were too stupid to read? Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will not behave like a Red Indian, Michael,” she said, loosening his hold. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was the first Indian with whom I had spent much time, and I came to admire him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was the loser Indian father of a loser Indian son living in a world built for winners. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just south of Hadley, before they could reach Deerfield, they had been ambushed by Indians who attacked savagely with both arrows and French rifles. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was a warm day in Indian summer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during that first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Between these fields was the forest, which Indians were subjecting to parallel changes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometime around the fifth century AD, Indian mathematicians changed their style of numbering; they moved from a Greek-like system to a Babylonian-style one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Magnificent ceramic jars, green with the patina of time, began to arrive at his house disguised in Indians’ bundles and llama saddlebags, quickly filling the secret places that had been set aside for them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time of the next appearance of Europeans on the lower Mississippi, that of French settlers in the late 1600s, almost all of those big Indian towns had vanished. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

British ships in the nineteenth century radically transformed native art by giving the Indians brightly colored paints that unlike native pigments didn’t wash off in the rain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The average African, I said, was still cautious about joint action with Indians and Coloureds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indians were supposed to work seven hours each day, and to be paid a set fee for each day’s work. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Because Indians liked to eat the animals, they took care to maximize the area in which they could be found. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then they walked “all the remaining Part of the Night without making any Stop,” hoping that the Indians would not begin pursuit until daylight. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if there were no Indians at all? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They didn’t care he was half black and his kind of Indian was the kind from the warm oceans. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Our building, owned by Indians, was one of the few places where Africans could rent offices in the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he obtained all the information that he needed, he organized teams of Indians to dig up whatever might have escaped the priest’s zealous archaeological notice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did the existence of Indians negate the Bible, and Christianity with it? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he began to calm down I gave him directions to the house of my friend and attorney Dullah Omar, who lived in the Indian area of the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great blame and imputation was laid upon me by them for the loss of our two men which the Indians slew, insomuch that they purposed to depose me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You can call me Ts’eh. That’s my nickname because my Indian name is so long. All of us kids did that.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that, sure, I was a Spokane Indian. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And we were an outrage to the Spanish-Mexicans and they in their turn on the Indians. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they were divorced, Rahel worked for a few months as a waitress in an Indian restaurant in New York. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be sure, Indians were not entirely hapless victims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Indians in Canada did not have the wheel or telephones, and ate the hearts of their enemies in the heathenish belief that it would give them courage. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hunt managed to sell only a few of his captives before local Roman Catholic priests seized the rest—the Spanish Church vehemently opposed brutality toward Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The Indians around here are going to be angry with you.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver and I had encountered a recurring difficulty in our travels: one African leader after another had ques-tioned us about our relations with white and Indian communists, sometimes suggesting that they controlled the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The campaign was confined to the Indian community and the participation of other groups was not encouraged. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house is three stories, all brick, and it sits back from Indian Hill Road, deep, deep in a yard blanketed with that thick, bright grass you see in lawn care flyers. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

From Durban I drove south along the coast past Port Shepstone and Port St. Johns, small and lovely colonial towns that dotted the shimmering beaches fronting the Indian Ocean. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land she tilled and worked had been Indian land. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My teachers in Indian school had certainly never encouraged me to think about travel. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the Indian leaders were now speaking in a sorrowful tone about the end of nonviolence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She learned about Indian words that have been incorporated into American English, like moose and pecan and squash, and Penobscot words like kwai kwai, a friendly greeting, and woliwoni, thank you. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

For the past few weeks in Molly’s American History class they’ve been studying the Wabanaki Indians, a confederacy of five Algonquian-speaking tribes, including the Penobscot, that live near the North Atlantic coast. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Many other previously uncontacted groups of New Guineans and Amazonian Indians have similarly owed to missionaries their incorporation into modern society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The government forbade any trafficking in Indian antiquities and had given the priest a general concession, authorizing him to catalogue whatever he found and hand it over to the museum. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Positive or negative, in both images Indians lacked what social scientists call agency—they were not actors in their own right, but passive recipients of whatever windfalls or disasters happenstance put in their way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Discovering the Louisiana mounds upset this view: they suggest that at least some early Indians were stay-at-homes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The rest of them are fully Indian, but Uma is the only other Bengali in the class. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They’re not on Indian Standard Time, I guess,” my dad jokes as he walks to the door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She wonders if she is the only Indian person in the hospital, but a gentle twitch from the baby reminds her that she is, technically speaking, not alone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You stood there and directed him how to hold this drunken helpless Indian woman down in the bottom of that canyon while you got ready to shoot a bullet into her brain?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Spaniards’ steel or chain mail armor and, above all, their steel helmets usually provided an effective defense against club blows, while the Indians’ quilted armor offered no protection against steel weapons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know much about how the Indian schools work, but I’ve heard they’re less focused on teaching folks how to kill the dead than they are civilizing them, whatever that means. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Sheep acquired from Spaniards similarly transformed Navajo Indian society and led to, among other things, the weaving of the beautiful woolen blankets for which the Navajo have become renowned. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Franklin and many others noted, Indian life—not only among the Haudenosaunee, but throughout the Northeast—was characterized by a level of personal autonomy unknown in Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indians were unwilling, too, to match the English tactic of massacring whole villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The dam would be built across Indian Creek at the mouth of Milagro Canyon, establishing a mile-and-a-half-long lake whose easternmost shore would extend up to within hailing distance of the Dancing Trout’s main lodge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa confessed that maybe it hadn’t been an Indian cemetery after all; maybe someone had made up that story. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

West Indian Archie’s known to be the meanest, most powerful numbers runner in the racket. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sullivan replied, “The Indians shall see that there is malice enough in our hearts to destroy everything that contributes to their support.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

As we dig, we look warily around, hoping there are no Indians to shoot at us today. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Thanksgiving passed, and the pheasant season came to a halt, but not the beautiful Indian summer, with its flow of clear, pure days. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neumann noted that Indians had also vied for mast and maize with deer, raccoons, squirrels, and turkeys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Or maybe he has Indian artifacts or pottery or stuff he doesn't want shippers to find." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Indian from the hill has his cave up that road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was through this invasion that Indian mathematicians first learned about the Babylonian system of numbers—and about zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was seven and made the colossal mistake of asking my mom to bring my favorite Indian dessert to school for my birthday. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

For his successors, in fact, the main task was not to discover whether Indians’ ancestors had walked over from Eurasia, but which Europeans or Asians had done the walking. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The overseers praised the Indians’ meekness but also held them in contempt. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had ears on her like an Indian scout. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were brought by Europeans and proceeded to transform the societies of Indian tribes that acquired them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Governor’s palace is guarded by brutes — Negroes and Shawnee Indians—patrolling the grounds — frowning out at the people. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the way home, I spotted this banged-up wooden sled kind of propped up against the Old Indian Rock monument. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I heard that in Indian Territory they tried to send Natives from the Five Civilized Tribes to combat schools, but they quickly figured out what was what and all ran off. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I recognized the orange bursts of Butterfly Weeds and the tall red Indian Paintbrushes, but there were so many beautiful plants in the garden all I could do was smile with joy and serenity. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In any case, he and the rest of the Indian party appeared without warning at the crest of a hill on the south bank of the creek that ran through the foreigners’ camp. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Part of your name is Indian,” the man said, pacing his steps with hers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was an old man, but he was strong like some of them old West Indian brothers. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would go to the bathroom and brush his teeth with his index finger, something he told her all Indians knew how to do, to get rid of the smoke in his mouth. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was among white and Indian intellectuals of my own generation, young men who would form the vanguard of the most important political movements of the next few years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, his fascination with the bones of old Indians was not matched by an equivalent interest in the sensibilities of living Native Americans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were irritatingly garrulous, prone to fits of chicanery, and often surprisingly incompetent at what seemed to Indians like basic tasks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When she saw the field at Indian Creek Elementary, Luma was stunned. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“He’s in the business of annihilating all Indian sweet makers in the world. He’s already cornered the North American market.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

‘Two Indians was walking on a trail. The one in front was the son of the one behind but the one behind was not his father. What kin was they?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The American woman scolded the dog, appeared to apologize, and walked quickly away, leaving the Indian woman to fix her sari in the middle of the footpath, and quiet her crying child. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

For dinner we went either to a Chinese place or the Indian one in the next town, and sometimes he drove to the city so we could eat Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t trust them Indians. Don’t you know we poisoned their corn? What if she trying to poison you?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Indians as poster children for eco-catastrophe, Indians as green role models: the two images contradict each other less than they seem. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Kermit then hopped out of the canoe—never certain if he was going to be greeted with a poison arrow shot by a hidden Indian. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Baron d’Arce was an example, despite his noble title; as the passage he italicized suggests, his account highlighted Indian freedoms as an incitement toward rebellion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A mosque opened up on Indian Creek Drive, just across the street from the elementary and high schools, and began to draw hundreds of worshipers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Interesting,” Rishi said, a small breeze lifting a tuft of his hair so he looked, adorably, like an Indian Dennis the Menace. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the Indian guide who had been appointed to take them up to the pueblo. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were fifty-two volunteers in all, both Africans and Indians, and a crowd of several hundred enthusiastic spectators and journalists. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To some extent, this freedom simply reflected North American Indians’ relatively recent adoption of agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sing was an Indian or part Indian and her name was Sing Byrd or, more likely, Sing Bird. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

An obnoxious group of well-manicured people—a white girl and boy, and an Indian boy—were already trying to take pictures of one another. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Moreover, they would exchange these valuable items for cheap furs of the sort used by Indians as blankets. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was anybody’s guess if the Indians might attack them on the expedition. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Indians got hold of them through trade and shipwreck, and trained themselves to be excellent sailors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even as Gandhi was working for Balasumdaram, the South Africans passed a new law designed to make life difficult for Indians. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She refuses to take them off when she visits, even though it's an Indian custom to leave your shoes at the door. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Gogol, why aren’t you a member of the Indian association here?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I fished around in my pocket and brought out an Indian arrowhead that I’d found the day before and gave that to her. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the Indian Blanca thought she had seen in Louis XV heels. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cooked; he savored; he even named me Tandoori, after West Indian cooking that is prepared in a clay stove called a tandoor. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He moved there because many Indians were already in Natal, laboring as indentured sugar workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

His are brown, like mine, like most Indians’, but so dark that the pupil almost completely fades into the iris. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know which tribe had called this territory home, but knew it had been Indian land. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That made me a better Indian, after all. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“About ten years ago, this Indian guy knocked on the door of my cabin in Montana.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Classical Indian musical aesthetics require only three major components in an ensemble: a drone, a solo instrumentalist or vocalist, and a drum. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Indian classical music, for example, does not contain harmony, but only the three textures of a melody, rhythm, and a drone. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Was it just a coincidence that both victims had been wealthy Osage Indians, in their thirties? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It takes us forever with our Indian passports and visas, but finally we make it through the blur of lines, paperwork, and questions from security agents. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To understand long-ago Indian lives, one cannot avoid the accounts of the first literate people who saw them: European swashbucklers, fortune hunters, and missionaries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

An old wound he had received fighting forty years ago in the French and Indian Wars had stiffened up on him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they had a glimpse of a blacksmith shop and other ‘Indians’ clamoring for soot for their faces. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hernando de Soto became the first European conquistador to march through the southeastern United States, in 1540, he came across Indian town sites abandoned two years earlier because the inhabitants had died in epidemics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Dadoo, president of the Transvaal Indian Congress, castigated the restrictions and dismissed the offer of parliamentary representation as “a spurious offer of a sham franchise.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though the Indian blood had routed every trace of the Celtic strain. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had rebuffed the Indian men she wasn’t interested in, and she had been forbidden as a teenager to date. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hates that his name is both absurd and obscure, that it has nothing to do with who he is, that it is neither Indian nor American but of all things Russian. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To the Indians, negative numbers made perfect sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A soldier, Captain Miles Standish, taught the Pilgrims how to defend themselves against unfriendly Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To Wilkes’s way of thinking, ancient Indian farming methods may be the cure for some of modern agriculture’s ailments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Indian Island, just above a waterfall, became their gathering place. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Gordy Adam was content to bask quietly in the sun wearing his Indian headband. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So far, Gandhi was being a lawyer, an advocate, pleading with whites to offer better treatment for Indians. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had run away from home at the age of 14 to fight in the French and Indian War. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Sanchez brothers dug him up from the cemetery and hauled the body out into full view, and then it was too much to attribute to the Indians. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he tries to explain our delicate relationship with the Indians, how we trade and work to keep a fragile peace, they scoff at him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

One of the first things they did at school was to teach all Indian children how to line up and march in step. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pythagoras had learned the triangle theorem—that the length of the third side of a right-angled triangle can be deduced mathematically from the length of the other two sides—from Indian or Babylonian geometers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had paid seventy-six cents for a genuine Indian birchbark canoe, only to find that it leaked. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Stack up all the black parts, next to the Indian part—” Fern said, “And you got a whole pie.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

That night we went out to an Indian restaurant, and I was happy that someone in this part of the world serves rice. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They prepared a spicy Indian lunch for us almost every day, and also tea, coffee, and sandwiches during the morning and afternoon breaks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reconstruction, published in newspapers and magazines around the world, elicited assertions that Indians had European ancestry. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I guess that makes us part Indian,” I said, “just part.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I mean, the thing is, plenty of Indians have died because they were drunk. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The children are awake too, the Indian said with her fatalistic conviction. “Once it gets into a house no one can escape the plague.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Cigarette packages that lacked a New York State revenue stamp—cigarettes purchased out of state, for example, or on Indian reservations—were not allowed to be distributed to inmates, and were apparently thrown away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s version of “lite” Indian sweets for “better” Indian restaurants was the key to his success after years trying to peddle the crazy-sweet stuff. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He passed a group of big, gaunt, slope-faced horses walking dumbly in a line along the shoulder—Indian horses, the agent guessed instinctively—and after that he crossed the Rio Colorado into Dona Luz. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another window, the museum arranged a harbor scene, where white colonists dressed like Mohawk Indians hurled crates of tea over the side of the ship with exaggerated glee. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My Indian passport makes the process more complicated. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was the man who worked in the West Indian restaurant on 147th Street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Turner said that once the Indians felled a tree against the escarpment. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fire was lit in a giant iron cauldron, and the certificates of 2,300 Indians were tossed into the flames—the first major act of Satyagraha. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

This was an effort to lure Indians and Coloureds into the system, and divide them from Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the weather got violent and the islands were battered, the West Indian population here had swollen. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The fall of Indian societies had everything to do with the natives themselves, researchers argue, rather than being religiously or technologically determined. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With the arrow still sticking out of his strap, Rondon fired his rifle into the air, scaring the Indians off. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Most of the thirty thousand enemy soldiers, she says, were just conscripts and Indians. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, Agent Wren arrived as an Indian medicine man who claimed to be searching for his relatives. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

By about four thousand years ago the Indians of the lower Amazon were growing crops—at least 138 of them, according to a recent tally. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Far from being dependent on big-game hunting, most Indians lived on farms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Every man is free,” the frontiersman Robert Rogers told a disbelieving British audience, referring to Indian villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The unoccupied area that the Osage were eyeing was bigger than Delaware, but most whites regarded the land as “broken, rocky, sterile, and utterly unfit for cultivation,” as one Indian Affairs agent put it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The booming of the guns, the blowing of the trumpets, and the rattles on the horses threw the Indians into panicked confusion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

You probably think I’ve completely fallen in love with white people and that I don’t see anything good in Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Never again would such a large Indian community exist north of Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The boys waved back and gave Indian whoops. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a story one of the old Indians used to tell us, about the Girl of Mataski. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other children with more prosperous parents had store costumes: sleazy Indian suits, cowboy suits and cheesecloth Dutch maiden dresses. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly Deblin's got a sort of Indian goddess dance, swaying but sort of flicking her hands. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Tree and Zheegwon, they were held by a colony of townspeople who tried different ways to extract their dreams, figuring they’d found some kinda personal reservoir with Indian twins.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I knowed there was only one reason they’d let the white children and the Indian children leave without no one watching ’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We drove away down Seminole, past our neighbors’ houses, already saying farewell to Indian Village. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We rate our favorite Indian foods and joke that how the first thing we both want when we fly back from India is an actual Big Mac. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Rogers and Colden admired these Indians, but not every European did. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But with lower-wage Indian reporters, who can be hired in large numbers for the cost of one reporter in New York, it can now do that from Bangalore. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe taking care of the elderly is ingrained in my Indian genes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like the looks of the Indian women she saw in Gallup, dancing at Eddie’s club with the drunks that stumbled around the floor with them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian woman stroked him gently in reward, then ladled some of the meat from the pot onto the grass. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z