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Indians are certain that Columbus brought [anthro-apologists] 
anthropologists on his ships when he came to the New World. How else 
could he have made so many wrong deductions about where he was ?

from: Custer Died For Your Sins, by Vine Deloria, Jr., copyright 1970

One of the major problems of the Indian people is the missionary. It 
has been said of missionaries that when they arrived they had only 
the Book and we had the land; now we have the Book and they have the land.
...An old Indian once told me that when the missionaries arrived they 
fell on their knees and prayed. Then they got up, fell on the 
Indians, and preyed...
...Rumor has it that Columbus began his journey with four ships. But 
one went over the edge [of the world] so he arrived in the new world 
with only three.
...Columbus didn't know where he was going, didn't know where he had 
been, and did it all on someone else's money. And the white man has 
been following Columbus ever since.
...when Columbus landed, one Indian turned to another and said, 
"Well, there goes the neighborhood."
...two Indians watching Columbus land and one saying to the other, 
"Maybe if we leave them alone they will go away"...

from: God Is Red, by Vine Deloria,Jr., copyright, 1994

The disclaimer of colonialism in recent years has presented Western 
peoples with a major dillema. Deprived of their traditional source of 
wealth from the underdeveloped and former colonial nations, they now 
have little choice but to seek ways of rechanneling their present 
wealth through the various forms of social organization already 
present domestically. A certain inertia has been achieved, perhaps 
unwittingly, that means a major shift in political thinking among 
Western peoples. The creation of wealth today is more dependent on 
new technology and manipulation of the tax laws than on the 
exploitation of untapped resources. That is not to say that 
exploitation of mineral and other resources will not continue. As 
undeveloped nations, such as those in Africa or the Middle East, 
continue their own growth, severe modifications of exploitation must 
occur, and more sophisticated forms of colonialism, such as sanctions 
and embargoes, must be created if Western countries are not to suffer 
economic collapse.

It is doubtful that many Amerikans understand the meaning of this 
shift from the colonialist attitude. At best it means the 
humanization of people who for centuries were considered mere 
producers of raw materials and consumers of those products they were 
required to purchase. At worst, the end of one form of colonialism 
means the beginning of a movement to fuedalize political systems 
around the globe so as to stabalize the economic conditions of the 
more affluent nations. Either approach means that the ecological 
problem is not dealt with, the problem of technological 
dehumanization is not reduced, and the breakdown of individual and 
communiy identity is not reversed.

from: God Is Red, by Vine Deloria, Jr., copyright1994

[ brackets are mine ]

compiled by aztatl, I.W.W. Albuquerque, NM
Aztatl Garza <aztatlxikano at gmail.com>



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