Peter Farb Quote

There are strong parallels between the hope for salvation of the Jews and the hopes of the Indians who followed native prophets, between the early Christian martyrs and the Indian revolts against United States authority, between the Hebrew and the [native American] Indian prophets.... the Jews and early Christians have served as models for oppressed peoples from primitive cultures... Almost everywhere the White missionary has penetrated, primitive people have borrowed from his bible those elements in which they saw a portrayal of their own plight... They regard the arrest and execution of a native on charges of being a rebel against White authority in the same terms as the trials undergone by the Hebrew prophets or the passion of Jesus.


Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)


There are strong parallels between the hope for salvation of the Jews and the hopes of the Indians who followed native prophets, between the early...

There are strong parallels between the hope for salvation of the Jews and the hopes of the Indians who followed native prophets, between the early...