Famous quotes containing the words plains and/or indian:
“We hold on to hopes for next year every year in western Dakota: hoping that droughts will end; hoping that our crops wont be hailed out in the few rainstorms that come; hoping that it wont be too windy on the day we harvest, blowing away five bushels an acre; hoping ... that if we get a fair crop, well be able to get a fair price for it. Sometimes survival is the only blessing that the terrifying angel of the Plains bestows.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)
“Sabra Cravat: I should think youd be ashamed of yourself. Mooning around with an Indian hired girl.
Cim Cravat: Ruby isnt an Indian hired girl. Shes the daughter of an Osage chief.
Sabra Cravat: Osage, fiddlesticks.
Cim Cravat: Shes just as important in the Osage nation as, well, as Alice Roosevelt is in Washington.”
—Howard Estabrook (18841978)