“The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it takes time to be restored. Imprints of past traumas do not mean a person cannot change their future beliefs… — Dee Brown Copy Share
“I heard him call to the people not to be afraid, that the soldiers would not hurt them; then the troops opened fire from… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
Treat all men alike… give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance… — Dee Brown Copy Share
“I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power, no control." Logan continued, "You are on an Indian reservation merely at the sufferance of the government. You are fed by the government, clothed by the government, your children are educated by the government, and all you have… — Dee Brown Copy Share
“The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it takes time to be restored. Imprints of past traumas do not mean a person cannot change their future beliefs and behaviors. as people, we do not easily forget. However, as we heal, grieve, and let go, we become clear-minded… — Dee Brown Copy Share
The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. —STEPHEN VINCENT BENET” — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“It is too often the case,” Crook said, “that border newspapers … disseminate all sorts of exaggerations and falsehoods about the Indians, which are copied in papers of high character and wide circulation, in other parts of the country, while the Indians’ side of the case is rarely ever heard. In this way the people at large get false ideas… — Dee Brown Copy Share
“Before these laws could be put into effect, a new wave of white settlers swept westward and formed the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa. This made it necessary for the policy makers in Washington to shift the “permanent Indian frontier” from the Mississippi River to the 95th meridian. (This line ran from Lake of the Woods on what is now… — Dee Brown Copy Share
“mainland of America, the Wampanoags of Massasoit and King Philip had vanished, along with the Chesapeakes, the Chickahominys, and the Potomacs of the great… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades,… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
