"When I was living with the Indians, my hostess, a fine looking woman, who wore numberless bracelets, and rings in her ears and on her fingers, and painted her face like a brilliant sunset, one day gave away a very fine horse. I was surprised, for I knew there had been no family talk on the subject, so I asked: “Will your husband like to have you give the horse away?” Her eyes danced, and, breaking into a peal of laughter, she hastened to tell the story to the other women gathered in the tent, and I became the target of many merry eyes. I tried to explain how a white woman would act, but laughter and contempt met my explanation of the white man’s hold upon his wife’s property."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Women born in the 19th centuryAnthropologists from the United StatesWomen scientists from the United StatesSocial scientists from the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Alice Cunningham Fletcher Speech on 'The Legal Conditions of Indian Women', delivered to Evening Session (Thur 29 Mar 1888), collected in Report of the International Council of Women: Assembled by the National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, D.C., U.S. of America, March 25 to April 1, 1888 (1888), Vol. 1, 240.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Cunningham_Fletcher
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
Alice Cunningham Fletcher (March 15, 1838 – April 6, 1923) was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and social scientist who studied and documented Native American culture.
6 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Alice Cunningham Fletcher →
Related Quotes
"The Indian may now become a free man; free from the thralldom of the tribe; free from the domination of the reservati…"
"...the woman owns her horses, dogs, and all the lodge equipments; children own their own articles; and parents do not…"
"Her kindred have a prior right and can use that right to separate her from him or protect her from him, should he mis…"
"At the present time all property is personal; the man owns his own ponies and other belongings he has personally acqu…"
"Imperceptibly a change had been wrought in me until I no longer felt alone in a strange, silent country. I had learne…"
"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"
"... Horticultural Show in the Temple Gardens. I go every year now, and should be sorry to miss it. How odd it seems, …"
"… Hassan promotes the BITE model as a scientific method for identifying “destructive cults,” claiming it can distingu…"
"Many people would say, 'So strict a way of would make life unbearable,' but after a time this strictness so changes t…"
"Charles and Theresa entertained many friends at ‘Woodlands’ including , , , Henry James, Thomas Croft, and members of…"