https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa en-us 2016-12-20 14:09:35 UTC 2025-11-08 04:21:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145388076 "The five civilized tribes of the Indian Territory...have had tribal schools until it is asserted that they are civilized; yet they have no notion of joining us and becoming a part of the United States."]]> 2017-01-04 21:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145388076 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145389528 2017-01-04 21:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145389528 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145389836 "As we have taken into our national family seven millions of Negroes, and as we receive foreigners at the rate of more that five hundred thousand a year, and assimilate them, it would seem that the time may have arrived when we can very properly make at least the attempt to assimilate our two hundred and fifty thousand Indians"]]> 2017-01-04 21:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145389836 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145398624 "I am going to turn you loose to pasture" He was sending me West to gather Indian pupils for the school, and this was his way of expressing it.]]> 2017-01-05 00:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145398624 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145398674 " My mother had never gone to school, and though she meant always to give up her own customs for such of the white man's ways as pleased her, she made only compromise".]]> 2017-01-05 00:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145398674 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145398715 "A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one...I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indians there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him and save the man."]]> 2017-01-05 00:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145398715 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145398716 He is the hypocrite who reads with one eye, "Thou shalt not kill;" and with the other gloats upon the sufferings of the Indian race.]]> 2017-01-05 00:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145398716 charizardt https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145398911 "In this fashion many have passed idly through the Indian schools during the last decade, afterward to boast of their charity to the North American Indian. But few there are who have paused to question whether real or long-lasting death lies beneath this semblance of civilization."]]> 2017-01-05 00:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145398911 charizardt https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145399235 "Mother, do not pray again! The Great Spirit does not care if we live or die! Let us not look for good or justice: then we shall not be disappointed!"]]> 2017-01-05 00:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145399235 charizardt https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145399283 "For the white man's papers I had given up my faith in the Great Spirit. For these same papers I had forgotten the healing in trees and brooks. On account of my mother's simple view of life, and my lack of any, I gave her up, also."]]> 2017-01-05 00:14:05 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145399283 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145399504 ""Put yourself in his place" is as good a guide to a proper conception of the Indian and his cause as it is to help us to right conclusions in our relations with other men." ]]> 2017-01-05 00:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145399504 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145399649 "When we cease to teach the Indian that he is less than a man; when we recognize fully that he is capable in all respects as we are...then the Indian will quickly demonstrate that he can be truly civilized, and he himself will solve the question of what to do with the Indian."]]> 2017-01-05 00:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145399649 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145406120 "When I saw an opium-eater holding a position as a teacher of Indians, I did not understand what good was expected, until a Christian in power replied that this pumpkin-colored creature had a feeble mother to support. An inebriate paleface sat stupid in a doctors chair, while Indian patients carried their ailments to untimely graves, because his fair wife was dependent upon him for her daily food."

]]> 2017-01-05 02:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145406120 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145406384 "But few there are who have paused to question whether real life or long-lasting death lies beneath this semblance of civilization."

]]> 2017-01-05 02:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145406384 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145406549 "'Ah ha! So you are the little Indian girl who created the excitement among the college orators!' he said, more to himself than to me. I thought I heard a subtle noise of disappointment in his voice."]]> 2017-01-05 02:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145406549 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145407618 "Even nature seemed to have no place for me. I was neither a wee girl nor a tall one; neither a wild Indian nor a tame one."]]> 2017-01-05 03:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145407618 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145407731 " It was next to impossible to leave the iron routine after the civilizing machine had once begun its day's buzzing; and as it was inbred in me to suffer in silence rather than to appeal to the ears of one whose open eyes could not see my pain, I have many times trudged in the day's harness heavy-footed, like a dumb sick brute."]]> 2017-01-05 03:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145407731 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145407790 "During the first two or three seasons misunderstandings as ridiculous as this one of the snow episode frequently took place, bringing unjustifiable frights and punishments into our little lives."]]> 2017-01-05 03:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145407790 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145410904 "Clause in our Constitution which forbids that there shall be 'any abridgment of the rights of citizens on account of race, color, or previous condition.' I leave off the last two words 'of servitude,' because i want to be entirely and consistently American.]]> 2017-01-05 04:40:22 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145410904 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145411090 "The Indians under our care remained savage, because forces back upon themselves and away from association with English-speaking and civilized people, and because of our savage example and treatment of them... We have never made any attempt to civilize them with the idea of taking them into the nation."]]> 2017-01-05 04:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145411090 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145411157 " We make our greatest mistake in feeding our civilization to the Indians instead of feeding the Indians to our civilization."]]> 2017-01-05 04:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145411157 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145411693 "They were no more young braves in blankets and eagle plumes, nor Indian maids with prettily painted cheeks."]]> 2017-01-05 05:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145411693 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145411880 2017-01-05 05:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145411880 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145411912 2017-01-05 05:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145411912 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145470449 1.) "Like a slender tree, I had been uprooted from my mother, nature, and God. I was shorn of my branches, which had waved in sympathy and love for home and friends. The natural coat of bark which had protected my oversensitive nature was scraped off to the very quick. 
2.) "The Indian cannot complain to the Great Father in Washington without suffering outrage for it here."
3.) "It is the same paleface who offers in one palm the holy papers, and with the other gives a holy baptism of firewater. He is the hypocrite who reads with one eye, 'Thou shalt not kill,' and with the other gloats upon the sufferings of the Indian race."

]]> 2017-01-05 13:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145470449 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145471346 "I had arrived in the wonderful land of rosy skies, but I was not happy, as I had thought I should be."

"Our mothers had taught us that only unskilled warriors who were captured had their hair shingled by the enemy."

"I took it from her hand, for her sake; but my enraged spirit felt more like burning the book, which afford me no help, and was a perfect delusion to my mother."]]> 2017-01-05 13:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145471346 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145474288 "a great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one..."

"...but the germ of human liberty remained among us and grew..."

"slavery itself... was... the greatest blessing that ever came to the negro race..."   ]]> 2017-01-05 14:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145474288 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145476651 "Kill the Indian, and Save the Man"

"that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man."

"The schools did not make them citizens, the schools did not teach them the language, nor make then industrious and self-supporting."

"When we cease to teach the Indian that he is less than a man; ... then the Indian will quickly demonstrate that he can be truly civilized..."]]> 2017-01-05 14:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145476651 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145514607 2017-01-05 15:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/naa/wish/145514607