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El Laberinto, 1971-1987
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The whites were always trying to make the Indians give up their life and live like white men---go to farming, work hard and do as they did---and the Indians did not know how to do that, and did not want to anyway.....If the Indians had tried to make the whites live like them, the whites would have resisted and it was thee same way with many Indians. Wamditanka (Big Eagle) of the Santee Sioux Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokemoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the white man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, "Never! Never!" -Tecumseh of the Shawnees [photo] [emblem]
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The whites were always trying to make the Indians give up their life and live like white men---go to farming, work hard and do as they did---and the Indians did not know how to do that, and did not want to anyway.....If the Indians had tried to make the whites live like them, the whites would have resisted and it was thee same way with many Indians. Wamditanka (Big Eagle) of the Santee Sioux Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokemoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the white man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, "Never! Never!" -Tecumseh of the Shawnees [photo] [emblem]
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