美国印第安人

EVERY eight-year-old in America knows about the Mashpee Wampanoag Indians on Cape Cod, the Indian tribe who befriended the newly arrived Pilgrims in 1620 and who were part of the first Thanksgiving.

在美国，每个八岁孩童都知道这个故事和其中的印第安部族——居住在科德角的玛许比？瓦帕浓印第安人。

A series of battles ended with the famous treaty of 1868, in which the United States recognised the entire western half of South Dakota as the Great Sioux Reservation as well as eastern Wyoming as "unceded Indian territory."

1868年签订的著名条约最终为一系列的战争画上了句号。美国在条约中承认整个南达科他州西部地区均属于大苏族保留地。同时，怀俄明州东部地区也是&印第安人不可分割的领土&。

You can even learn from calenders. They often give information about their subject, such as famous writers or American Indians or flower gardens.

你也可以从日历中学到很多东西，它通常提供了一些信息，比如一些著名的作家、美国的印第安人或者花园。

This stone is known for being used by Native American Indians as talismans.

这种石头是知名的美国土著印第安人作为护身符。

Are we talking about the brown-skinned Indians in India who have multiplied under benevolent British rule, Churchill retorted, or are we speaking about the red-skinned Indians in America who, I understand, are now almost extinct ?

邱吉尔反唇相稽说：「我们现在说的，是印度的褐色皮肤印人，还是美国的红色皮肤印人？印度人在英国仁政之下，人口倍增；印第安人呢，听说却几乎灭绝了。」著作：古德明由於这篇是旧资料，所以注解没有了，请见谅

As against the Bedouins", he wrote,"our pioneers are in a position not unlike the American settlers against the Indians.

他写道，&在打击贝多因人方面，我族的先驱者的所作所为与当年美国定居者们对土著印第安人的侵略可谓无异。&

The American missionaries and civilisers truly believed that in forbidding the use of Lakota language and the practice of Lakota customs they were doing the right thing even, perhaps, saving the Indians'"souls" and allowing them to find a place in heaven by converting them to Christianity.

美国传教士和文明人打心眼里相信禁止拉科塔语和拉科塔风俗是一件正确的事。让印第安人皈依基督教甚至有可能拯救他们的&灵魂&，让他们能够在天堂拥有一席之地。

In these less developed countries, as in American Ghettoes and on reservations, money that should be spent for food goes instead to tobacco companies; over time, people starve themselves of both food and air, effectively weakening and addicting their children, eventually wiping themselves out.

在这些不发达国家，如同在美国的贫民区和印第安人居住区，本应花在实物上的钱却流向了烟草公司。长期以来，这些人既缺少食物，又缺少新鲜空气，结果使他们子女的身体日渐衰弱并染上烟瘾，最终搞垮了身体。

Today, legal challenges to that theft are still being contested in the courts, while the social and economic problems of the Indians who have been so profoundly victimised over the last two centuries remain an enduring stain on US honour and integrity and are a heavy and painful historical legacy.

时至今日，法庭上针对这种偷盗行为的合宪性所提出的质疑声依然不绝于耳。而对于美国所谓的正直和荣耀而言，过去的两个世纪里遭受巨大伤害的印第安人在社会和经济等方面所面临的问题依然是其脸上抹不去的污点，同时也是一份沉痛历史记忆。

Self-defense might be one reason. Actually Americans seem to have a long history of owning guns. Their forefathers of frontiersmen had once used guns against outlaws, cattle rustlers, and the Indians.

自卫也许是一个原因，实际上，美国人拥有枪支的历史似乎已是源远流长---那些开拓边疆的祖先们就曾用手里的枪打退不法之徒、偷牛贼和印第安人。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了