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  • Zaheer Ahmed Sayeed Chennai, IndiaA true American once said: "Pale-face speaks with a forked tongue," referring to the government of the United States.

    Mail Call: A New Food Pyramid 2007

  • Time, indeed, made him almost popular -- embarrassingly popular -- for there came a day when the tribe more than hinted its desire that the Pale-face should wed one of its most beauteous daughters.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • And when she heard that the great Pale-face Chief whom she loved so dearly was to be killed, her heart was filled with grief, and she resolved to save him.

    This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

  • To the Redman belongs the country and the Pale-face must never enjoy it.

    This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

  • It is named 'Thunder Rock,' and wise men of the Pale-face people say it is rich in ore – copper, silver, and gold.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • The Pale-face calls the place Point Grey, but the Indians yet speak of it as 'The Battle Ground

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • Keep my strength living for them; hide it so that the Pale-face may never find or see it. '

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • The only shadow on the joy of it all was war, for the tribe of the great Tyee was at war with the Upper Coast Indians, those who lived north, near what is named by the Pale-face as the port of Prince Rupert.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • In short, were every drop of blood in his royal veins red, instead of blue, he could not be more fully qualified as an Indian chief than he now is, not even were his title one of the fifty hereditary ones whose illustrious names composed the Iroquois confederacy before the Pale-face ever set foot in America.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • I was about to leave home, when, to my surprise, some of the older members of the Pokagon band objected to my going to the white man's school; believing it would displease the Great Spirit for a son of the Great Chief, who had passed into the hunting-ground beyond, to attend the Pale-face school.

    Indian Superstitions and Legends. 1898

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