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And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all...

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If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was suppo...

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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Cli...

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In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they...

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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there ar...

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Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that ...

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Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better ...

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The Indians’ insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other ...

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Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environme...

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Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in...

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The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths an...

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...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and Am...

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Margaret AtwoodSurvival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in...

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That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card tric...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the ...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Oh, no, no, you've got that all wrong. You're not required to respect elders. After all, most people...

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Sherman AlexieThe Toughest Indian in the World

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew ther...

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What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus ha...

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Sherman AlexieYou Don't Have to Say You Love Me

For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a lit...

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When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...

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A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...

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