Changed Quote by Sarah Zettel

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all…

— Sarah Zettel

Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen…

— Sarah Zettel

“Before Columbus, Holmberg believed, both the people and the land had no real history. Stated so baldly, this notion-that the indigenous peoples of the…

— Charles C. Mann

Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.

— Ross Douthat

Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of…

— Cecil Rhodes

“Until Columbus, Indians were a keystone species in most of the hemisphere. Annually burning undergrowth, clearing and replanting forests, building canals and raising fields,…

— Charles C. Mann

I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

“Yes, all of this I thought about, all of this filled me with sorrow and a sense of helplessness, and if there was a…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it's been done in science fiction many,…

— Alastair Reynolds

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

— Thomas Jefferson

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

— Stephen Hawking