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Voices, The Peoples News
Published since March, 2003
May. 4, 2K6
News from around Indian Country and other tidbits they don't want you to know. The purpose of this newsletter is to inform and educate. [Feel free to pass around]
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*Savage* Quotes through the ages “Now, I have ordered my men to build a tower and a fort, not that I believe it to be necessary, for it is obvious, that with these men that I ring, I could subdue all of this Island, since the people are naked and without arms… But it is right that this tower be made, so that with love and fear, they will obey.”
Christopher Columbus
“Believe me, when I saw their general behaviour, their pleasing ways and engaging manners, my heart was broken to think that they were still deprived of the Holy Gospel…”
- Spanish Missionary
“Could it not be contrived to send a small pox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We must, on this occasion, use every strategy in our power to reduce them. You will do well to try and inoculate the Indians by means of blankets, to try to extripate this execrable race.”
“I do not desire to enter into any Negotiations with the Tribes Engaged in the present Insurrection, until they have suffered a most severe Chastisement, Which must be Previous to any accommodation, or they will most assuredly break it, Indeed their Total Extirpation is scarce sufficient Attonement for the Bloody and Inhuman deeds they have committed.”
Jefferey Amherst
“There appears to be few savages yet on these frontiers, but every tree is become an Indian for the terrified inhabitant.”
“I will try to inocculate the Indians by means of blanketts that may fall in their hands, taking care however not to get the disease myself. As it is pity to oppose good men against them, I wish we could make use of the Spaniard's method, and hunt them with English dogs. Supported by rangers, and some light horse, who would I think effectively extirpate or remove that vermine.”
“The reinforcement you have ordered this way, so considerable by the additional number of officers, will fully enable me to crush the little opposition they may dare to offer along the Road, and Secure that Part of the Country against all their future attempts, till you think proper to order us to act in conjunction with the rest of your forces to extirpate that Vermine from a Country they have forfeited, and with it all claim to the rights of humanity.”
- Colonel Bouquet
“The people of our Frontier carry on private expeditions against the Indians, and kill them whenever they meet them. And I do not believe there is a jury in all of Kentucky who would punish a man for it.”
- John H. (?) - US Army
“While strong, it had been our obvious policy to weaken them. Now that they are weak and harmless, and most of their lands’ fallen into our hands, they must be taught to =mprove their condition.
- William Clarke - Superintendent of Indian Affairs
“The Humbolt Times, Eureka, January 17th...
Headline: Good haul of diggers. Band exterminated.”
“Damn any man who sympathises with Indians. I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God’s heaven to kill them.”
- Colonel John Chivington “There is to be no counsel held with the Indians, the men are to be slain whenever and wherever they can be found. The women and children may be taken as prisoners. I =rust that these demonstrations will teach those Indians a wholesom lesson!”
James Carleton
“The buffalo hunters have done more to settle the vexed Indian question than the entire regular army! For the sake of lasting peace, let them kill, skin and sell until the buffalos are exterminated!”
General Phil Sheridan - US Army
“The only good Indian is a dead Indian!”
“Kill the Indian, Save the Man!”
“The Indian’s only safe future can be found in merging their interests with ours in becoming part of the people of the United States. Their safe course is to quit being «tribal Indians», to go out and live among us as individual men, to adopt our language, our industries, and become a part of the Power.”
- Richard Pratt (Carlisle =ndian School)
“Many of the rich men of the country had from 20 to 60 Indian servants whom they dressed and fed. Our friendly Indians tilled our soil, pastured our cattle, cut our lumber, built our houses, made tiles for our homes, ground our grains, laudered our cattle and dressed their hides for market, while Indian women made excellent servants, took good care of our children, made every one of our meals.”
- Mexican landowner
“A company of United States troops, accompanied by a considerable volunteer force, has been persuing the poor creatures from one retreat to another. The kidnappers follow at the heels of the soldiers to seize the children when their parents are murdered, and sell them to the best advantage.”
- W.P. Dole - Indian Agent
“It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural
resistance to illness by habitating so closely in these schools, and that
they die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this alone does
not justify a change in the policy of this department, which is geared
towards the FINAL SOLUTION OF OUR INDIAN PROBLEM.”
- Duncan Campbell Scott (1910)
... and the Genocide continues...TO THIS DAY!! “We ‘true Canadians’, can only pray that our government will turn a blind eye to let the people take care of you Indians. Pissed off that your grand daddy sold your land for beads? Too bad. Pay fucking taxes and stop whining over what you want. Its funny nobody protested while the land was being prepared. The land was given back to the government along time ago and you know it. But I guess it’s a good reason to crack open a 50 an ave a fire eh! Fuck you all , you will pay hard. But it’s a good thing in a way because you show what kind of people you are to people who don’t know any better. Glad to see your digging your own graves. | |