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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
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The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.
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To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature — the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.
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The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
Dee Brown
Born:
February 29, 1908
Died:
December 12, 2002
(aged 94)
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