His name was Shadow, short for ShadowThat Comes in Sight, an old Indian name, Apache or Cheyenne. I very much approved of this.You don't want dogs called Spot or Pooch.You don't want dogs called Nigel or Keith. The names of dogs should salute the mystical drama of the animal life. Shadowöthat's a good name.

-Amis, Martin Louis
  Money.

   Si hay poes|¤a en nuestra Ame¤  rica, ella esta¤   en las cosas viejas: en Palenke y Uatla¤  n, en el indio legendario y el inca sensual y fino y en el gran Moctezuma de la silla de oro. Lo dema¤  s es tuyo, demo¤  crataWaltWhitman. If there is poetry in our America, it is in ancient items: in Palenke and Uatla¤  n, in the legendary Indian and in the sensuous and elegant Inca and the great Moctezuma. The rest is yours, democratic Walt Whitman.

-Dar|¤  o, Rube¤  n pseudonym of Fe¤  lixRube¤  nGarc|¤a Sarmiento
  Prosas profanas,'Palabras liminares'.

Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian. «

-Heat-Moon,William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon
  Blue Highways:  A  Journey Into  America. historical     setting,     exploring     the     conflict     between     the individual and humanity as a whole.

'Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is an aphorism which has saved manyan English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

-Mitford, Nancy Freeman
  Love in a Cold Climate, pt.1, ch.2.

All that I know of our historyand thehistoryof the Indian Ocean I have got from books written by Europeans† Without Europeans, I feel, all our past would have been washed away, like the scuff marks of fishermen on the beach.

-Naipaul, Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad)
  A Bend in the River, ch.1,'The Second Rebellion'.

  Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav'n.

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.99^104.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian.

-Sheridan, Philip Henry
  Attributed comment at Fort Cobb, Jan.