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Wednesday 24th of April 2024

Native Americans As the efforts to assimilate us largely failed and we remained, mostly, in our homelands, Americans have gradually assimilated to our  cultures, and our  worldview, and our  modes of connecting to nature. The parks enshrine places, but they also emphasize and prioritize a particular way of interacting with the land. In the nation's mythic past, the wilderness may have been a dangerous environment, some- thing to be tamed, plowed under, cut down. But that way of relating to the land is no longer in vogue. For many Americans, our wildplaces are a solace, a refuge — cathedrals, indeed. America has succeeded in becoming more Indian over the past 245 years than the other way around. David Treuer, The Atlantic, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Native Americans A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, and that high sanction of his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man. Richard H. Pratt, founder and superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School,  the famous government-run boarding school where Native American children who were forcibly removed from their familes were sent to erase vestiges of their tribal culture by being taught to act like whites © 2023 Kwiple.com
Native Americans I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. Theodore Roosevelt © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Native Americans In 2000, as the expanding Native American casino industry in upstate New York threatened his own gambling interests in New Jersey, the businessman took aim at the St Regis Mohawk tribe. Trump secretly spent $1m on local newspaper adverts that portrayed the tribe as organized criminals and cocaine pushers. Under a photograph of syringes and lines of powder ran the question: “Are these the new neighbors we want?” The Guardians, September 29, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com