Just to set the record straight- The guy didn't say "The only good Indian is a dead Indian". He said "It seems that all the good Indians are dead".
2006-08-29 01:58:31 · 20 answers · asked by Harriet 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
From the web: Dee Brown's best selling book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (1970) contains a telling chapter with the gruesome proverbial title "The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian",[7] the word "dead" meaning both literal death, and for those who survived the mass killings, a figurative death, i.e., a restricted life on the reservation with little freedom to continue the traditional life-style.
2006-08-29 02:15:05 · answer #1 · answered by Geoff 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Gen Philip Sheridan he actually said "The only good Indians I ever saw were dead" He was speaking of the American Indians not people from India. He statement then as it is today was wrong and very racists. If it were not for the American Indians white man would never of survived in this country. They taught him how to survive and their repayment was to be slaughter and hearded like cattle to live in small areas the white man allowed. Just imagine if someone came into your home looking lost and unknowing and you gave them food a place to sleep taught them how to survive and then they took over your house and told you that you could only have one room in the house in which to live the rest belonged to them. How would you feel???
And no I was not born in this mans time so I did not know him.
2006-08-29 02:12:50 · answer #2 · answered by lost_soul 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the guy, but I liked him better when I thought he said the only good indian is a dead indian
2006-08-29 02:02:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Union Army General Philip Sheridan
2006-08-30 02:42:23 · answer #4 · answered by D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
General Philip Sheridan
2006-08-29 02:21:04 · answer #5 · answered by Ali 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's wrong. There are some great live Indians. Ghandi is dead though.
Probably Buffalo Bill or Gen. Custer.
2006-08-29 02:05:28 · answer #6 · answered by madbaldscotsman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should delete that from your memory. I don't know why do you remember that - Americans banned the poor Indians from their own teritory. There are a lot of other agresive butheads in the world, including in USA, to apply this saying on them!
2006-08-29 04:51:56 · answer #7 · answered by Wintermute 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I know him, and it is so wrong for you to bring up my relatives. Nobody is perfect and to set the record STRAIGHT, he said, "It seems we could off all these Indians and still have time for strip poker"
2006-08-29 04:47:40 · answer #8 · answered by JJohn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have dealt, met with people form several countries and also from India its so bad to be judgemental or believe such Losers who have no exp abt anything in life, people are good and bad, but if you are sane and good all good whether Indian, Arab, French or anyone people are good always sometimes situations do make them crazy but there is no general defination for this, this is SAD statement!
2006-08-29 02:05:58 · answer #9 · answered by Mozomo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to its me 23 what the heck is an Arab Indian they re nothing to do with each other Indians come from Asia Arabs come from the Gulf or North Africa
2006-08-29 02:39:17 · answer #10 · answered by keny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋