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It is my observation that we are suffering from the attitudes that come
from the Christian doctrine of manifest destiny--that one people will rule
the world. Inherent in this is the idea that a chosen people have a divine
right--nay mission--to dominate the world.
Oren R. Lyons (Onandaga), commencement address at Syracuse University,
1993
The white man's religion talks about mastering the earth, which means
putting up your towns by water so you can watch your garbage float away.
Oren R. Lyons (Onandaga), quoted in "R.I.P. Tonto," Esquire, February
1994
The West didn't get wild until the white people got there. There's no such
word as wild in the Indian languages. The closest we can get to it is the
word free. We were free people.
Oren R. Lyons (Onandaga), quoted in "R.I.P. Tonto," Esquire, February
1994
We want to maintain ourselves as we are so we can contribute our
differences, our particular understanding, to both the national community
and the global society.
LaDonna Harris (Comanche), "Native American Reader: Stories, Speeches
and Poems"
The great cities of Machu Picchu, Tenoshtitlan, Kahokia, and the village
cities of the Anasazi reflect industrious and prosperous societies that
lived in harmony with Mother Nature, possessing an understanding that
humans exist together with, not separate from, the natural world that
ensures survival.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne), "Reflections on the
Quincentenary," Journal of Legal Commentary, Spring 1992
It is difficult to comprehend the magnitude of the atrocities--intentional,
neglectful, or accidental--perpetuated on Indian people by the conquering
culture, and later by the very government that assumed responsibility for
their protection.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne), "Reflections on the
Quincentenary," Journal of Legal Commentary, Spring 1992
Tonto was everything that the white man had always wanted the Indian to be.
He was a little slower, a little dumber, had much less vocabulary, and
rode a darker horse.
Somehow Tonto was always there. Like the Negro butler and the Oriental
gardener. Tonto represented a silent, subservient subspecies of
Anglo-Saxon whose duty was to do the bidding of the all-wise white hero.
Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux), "Custer Died for Your Sins"
[A non-Indian] said that he was really sorry about what had happened to
Indians, but that there was good reason for it. The continent had to be
developed and he felt that Indians had stood in the way and thus had had to
be removed. "After all," he remarked, "what did you do to the land when
you had it?" I didn't understand him until later when I discovered that
the Cuyahoga River running through Cleveland is inflammable....How many
Indians could have thought of creating an inflammable river?
Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux), "We Talk, You Listen"
American Indians seem an enigma to most other Americans. The images
portrayed in the movies, whether of noble red man or bloodthirsty savage,
recall the stereotypes of western history. Newspaper stories dealing with
oil wells, uranium mines, land claims, and the occupation of public
buildings and reservation hamlets almost seem to speak of another group
altogether and it is difficult to connect the two perceptions of Indians in
any single and comprehensible reality.
Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux), "American Indians, American
Justice"
Literature on Indians provides no clues to understanding the present or
remembering the past. Much contemporary literature is a thinly disguised
romanticism that looks at Indians as the last and best spiritual hope for a
society disheartened and disorganized.
Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux), "American Indians, American
Justice"
We believe that all living things come from our sacred mother earth, all
living things, the green things, the winged things of the air, the
four-leggeds, the things that crawl and the two-leggeds....But the
important thing in our philosophy is that we believe we're the weakest
things on earth, that the two-legged is the weakest thing on earth because
we have no direction....Now, because we are the weakest things on earth, we
do not have license to exploit or manipulate our brother and sisters and we
also know, because of our role in life, that the buffalo and all other
relatives of ours teach us, and so we built our civilization.
Dennis Banks (Chippewa), Wounded Knee testimony, 2/12/74
No historian would accept accounts of Nazi officials as to what happened in
Nazi Germany because these accounts were written to justify that regime.
Yet American historians are still subjective about their own history with a
few exceptions. They try to justify and rationalize what happened, give
excuses or lay blame on a few exceptionally cruel generals or wild
frontiersmen. There were too many massacres for them to be accidental.
There were too many buffalo for them to become extinct in a period of five
years. Genocide is colonial policy, not accident.
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (Cheyenne), "The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in
Judgment on America"
No matter which continent your ancestors came from, if you are an American,
you are part Indian in your roots.
Larry Echohawk (Pawnee), address to the Democratic National Convention,
1992
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