Sarah Luse Larimer > Quotes

“They yearn for the glory of war, which is the only path to distinction among a people who have no arts or industrial pursuits.”
― Sarah Luse Larimer, The Capture and Escape: Life Among the Sioux

“Not unlike his brother physicians in civilized communities, the Indian doctor endeavors to confound the people by an unintelligible language, and serious expressions of countenance, as a substitute for real knowledge and skill, thus concealing his incompetency under the disguise of learning, sometimes to the destruction of his confiding patient.”
― Sarah Luse Larimer, The Capture and Escape: Life Among the Sioux