4. “As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the
first Island which I found, I took some of the
The New World natives by force in order that they might learn
and might give me information of whatever
there is in these parts.”
Christopher Columbus, 1492
7. Thanksgiving
“These were not merely „friendly Indians.‟
They had already experienced European
slave traders raiding their villages for a
hundred years or so, and they were wary
but it was their way to give freely to those
who had nothing. Among many of our
peoples, showing that you can give without
holding back is the way to earn respect.”
Jaqueline Keeler, Dakota Sioux
10. "I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and
dragged from their homes, and driven at the
bayonet point into the stockades. And in the chill
of a drizzling rain on an October morning I saw
them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred
and forty-five wagons and started toward the
west....On the morning of November the 17th we
encountered a terrific sleet and snow storm with
freezing temperatures and from that day until we
reached the end of the fateful journey on March
the 26th 1839, the sufferings of the Cherokees
were awful. The trail of the exiles was a trail of
death. They had to sleep in the wagons and on the
ground without fire. And I have known as many
as twenty-two of them to die in one night of Trail of Tears
pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold and
exposure..."
12. Take up the White man's burden --
Send forth the best ye breed --
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild --
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man's burden --
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
Manifest Destiny An hundred times mad plain.
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
13. Little Big Horn, 1876
”They saw we massacred [Custer]
but he would have done the same
War Against Natives thing to us had we not defended
ourselves and fought to tha last…”
16. ”Indinas must conform to white
man‟s ways, peaceably if they will,
Assimilation focibly if they must…”
17. Indian Citizenship Act 1924
"BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and house of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all non
citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States
be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States:
Provided That the granting of such citizenship shall not in any
manner impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to tribal or
other property.