Our Shadow, 2006.

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Our Shadow, 2006.
Our Shadow, 2006.

“All my life, I’ve had to listen to rhetoric about the United States being a model of freedom and democracy, the most uniquely enlightened and humanitarian country in history, a 'nation of laws' which, unlike others, has never pursued policies of conquest and aggression. I am sure you’ve heard it before. It’s official 'truth' in the United States. It’s what is taught to schoolchildren, and it’s the line peddled to the general public. Well, I’ve got a hot news flash for everybody here. It’s a lie. The whole thing’s a lie, and it always has been. Leaving aside the obvious points which could be raised to disprove it by blacks, and Chicanos, and Asian immigrants right here in North America-not to mention the Mexicans, the Nicaraguans, the Guatemalans, the Puerto Ricans, the Hawaiians, the Philipinos, the Samoans, the Tamarros of Guam, the Marshall Islanders, the Koreans, the Vietnamese, the Cubans, the Dominicans, the Grenadans, the Libyans, the Panamanians, the Iraqis, and a few dozen other peoples out there who’ve suffered American invasions and occupations firsthand-there’s a little matter of genocide that’s got to be taken into account right here at home. I’m talking about the genocide which has been perpetrated against American Indians, a genocide that began the instant the first of Europe’s boat people washed up on the beach of Turtle Island, a genocide that’s continuing right now at this moment. Against Indians, there’s not a law the United States hasn’t broken, not a Crime Against Humanity it hasn’t committed, and it’s still going on.”
-Russell Means, American Indian Movement, October 12th, 1992, quoted in A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present, Ward Churchill, 1997, page vii.



"Europeans did not find a wilderness here, they made one."
-Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America, 1975, page 30.



"You cannot discover an inhabited land. Otherwise I could cross the Atlantic and 'discover' England."
-Dehatkadons, chief of the Onondaga Iroquois, quoted in Stolen Continents, Ronald Wright, 2005, page 5.



"Within no more than a handful of generations following their first encounters with Europeans, the vast majority of the Western Hemisphere's native peoples had been exterminated...What this means is that, on average, for every twenty natives alive at the moment of European contact-when the lands of the Americas teemed with numerous tens of millions of people- only one stood in their place when the bloodbath was over...The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world."
-David E. Stannard, American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World, 1992, page x.



“The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.”
-Samuel Eliot Morison, Christopher Columbus, Mariner, 1942, page 99.



“But, should your Majesties command it, all the inhabitants could be taken away to Castile, or made slaves on the island. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
-Don Cristobal Colon, aka Christopher Columbus, from his log of the first voyage, quoted by Bartolome de las Casas,  Account of the First Voyages, 1492.



"In July 1763, General Jeffery Amherst, the Commander-in-Chief of British forces in North America, sent a memo to Colonel Bouquet, a Huguenot in the service of England, asking:
'Could it not be contrived to send the Smallpox among the disaffected Tribes of Indians?'
Bouquet replied: 'I will try to inoculate the Indians with some blankets that may fall into their hands, and take care not to get the disease myself.'
Amherst answered: 'You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets."
-Daniel N. Paul, We were Not the Savages, 1993.



"Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians. Kill and scalp all, big and little; Nits make lice."
-Colonel John Chivington, Commander of the Sand Creek Massacre, responding to Army officers protests, just before the massacre, early morning of November 29, 1864.



“There is no use mincing words…we exterminated the American Indians and I guess most of us are proud of it…and we must have no scruples about exterminating this other race standing in the way of progress and enlightenment, if it is necessary.”
-Anonymous Army Officer in the Philippines, 1890. 



“What shall be done with the Indian as an obstacle to the national progress? What shall be done with him when, and so far as, he ceases to oppose or obstruct the railways and the settlements?”
-Frances A. Walker, Superintendent of the 1870 and 1880 Decennial Censuses, The Indian Question, 1874.



"An indispensable condition for the establishment of manufacturing industry was the accumulation of capital facilitated by the discovery of America and the importation of its precious metals."
-Karl Marx, Poverty of Philosophy (1847), in Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy, 1961, page 138.



"The invaders also anticipated, correctly, that other Europeans would question the morality of their enterprise. They therefore [prepared]...quantities of propaganda to overpower their countrymen's scruples. The propaganda gradually took standard form as an ideology with conventional assumptions and semantics. We live with it still."
-Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America, 1975, page



"Maybe we made a mistake in trying to maintain Indian cultures. Maybe we should not have humored them in that, wanting to stay in that primitive life style. Maybe we should have said: No, come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us."
-Ronald Reagan



 


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