James Axtell, Francis Jennings, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rupert Costo, and Thomas Bailey Quotes

To understand the making of Anglo-America is impossible without close and sustained attention to its indigenous predecessors, allies, and nemeses.
-James Axtell

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

Memory says, "I did that."Pride replies, "I could not have done that." Eventually, memory yields.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

There is not one Indian in the whole of this country who does not cringe in anguish and frustration because of these textbooks. There is not one Indian child who has not come home in shame and tears.

-Rupert Costo

Old myths never die-they just become embedded in the textbooks.

-Thomas Bailey