https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab en-us 2016-12-20 14:12:18 UTC 2017-01-06 08:11:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145594380 2017-01-05 20:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145594380 jian18w https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145610159 1. Not a soul reasoned quietly with me, as my own mother used to do; for now I was only one of many little animals driven by a herder.
2.The melancholy of those black days has left so long a shadow that it darkens the path of years that have since gone by.
3. Often I wept in secret, wishing I had gone West, to be nourished by my mother's love, instead of remaining among a cold race whose hearts were frozen hard with prejudice.]]> 2017-01-05 22:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145610159 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145614453 "'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."

"My daughter, beware of the paleface. It was the cruel paleface who caused the death of your sister and your uncle, my brave brother."

"Like a slender tree I had been uprooted from my mother, nature, and God."]]> 2017-01-05 23:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145614453 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145617377 1. "...she would have said the white man's papers were not worth the freedom and health I had lost by them."
2. "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."
3. "...the white visitors walked out of the schoolhouse well satisfied; they were educating the children of the red man!" ]]> 2017-01-06 00:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145617377 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145618596 "For several heart throbs I sat still looking from ceiling to floor [...] trying hard to imagine years of contentment there"

"'The Indian cannot complain to the Great Father in Washington without suffering for it here"'

"I find it hard to count that white man a teacher who tortured an ambitious Indian youth [...] was nothing but a 'government pauper'"]]> 2017-01-06 01:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145618596 syssa_nelson https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145620604 "A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, and that high sanction of his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man."

"For many years we greatly oppressed the black man, but the germ of human liberty remained among us and grew, until, in spite of our irregularities, there came the lowest savagery into intelligent manhood and freedom among us more more than 7 millions of our population, who are to-day an element of industrial value with which we could not well dispense."

"Carlisle has always planted treason to the tribe and loyalty to the nation at large."
 ]]> 2017-01-06 01:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145620604 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145621128 "'My daughter, beware of the paleface. It was the cruel paleface who caused the death of your sister and you uncle, my brave brother.'"

"For the white man's papers I had given up my faith in the Great Spirit."

"When I saw the first cone-shaped wigwam, I could not help uttering an exclamation which caused my driver a sudden jump out of his drowsy nodding."]]> 2017-01-06 01:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145621128 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145621383
"...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." 

"We discussed our fate some moments, and when Judéwin said, 'We have to submit, because they are strong.'"

"I cried aloud, shaking my head all the while until I felt the cold blades of the scissors against my neck, and heard them gnaw off one of my thick braids. Then I lost my spirit....And now my long hair was shingled like a coward's!...for now I was only one of many little animals driven by a herder."

]]> 2017-01-06 02:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145621383 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145622707 1. "The Indians under our care remained savage, because forced back upon themselves and away from association with English-speaking and civilized people, and because of our savage example and treatment of them..."
2. "We make our greatest mistake in feeding our civilization to the Indians instead of feeding the Indians to our civilization."
3. "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, and that he only needs the opportunities and privileges that we possess to enable him to assert his humanity and manhood; when we act consistently towards him in accordance with that recognition; when we cease to fetter him to conditions which keep him in bondage, surrounded by retrogressive influences; when we allow him the freedom of association and the developing influences of social contact- then the Indian will quickly demonstrate that he can truly be civilized, and he himself will solve the question of what to do with the Indian."]]> 2017-01-06 02:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145622707 li18hao https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145625019 1. "I am going to turn you loose to the pasture! He was sending me West to gather Indian pupils for the school, and this was his way of expressing it."

2. "this village has been these many winters a refuge for white robbers. The Indian cannot complain to the Great Father in Washington without suffering outrage out here."

3. "Thus, when a hidden rage took me to the small white-walled prison which I then called my room, I unknowingly turned away from my one salvation."]]> 2017-01-06 03:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145625019 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145625620 "The schools did not make them citizens, the schools did not teach them the language, nor make them industrious and self-supporting."

"They are not measure their strength with the other inhabitants of the land, and find out what they do not know, and thus be led to aspire to gain in education, experience, and skill, - those things that they must know in order to become equal to the rest of us"

"It is a great mistake to think that the Indian is born an inevitable savage" ]]> 2017-01-06 03:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145625620 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145626176 "Though I was sullen in all my little troubles, as soon as I felt better I was ready to smile upon the cruel woman. Within a week I was again actively testing the chains which tightly bound my individuality like a mummy for burial."

"Perhaps my Indian nature is the moaning wind which stirs them now for their present record. But, however tempestuous this is within me, it comes out as the low voice of a curiously colored seashell, which is only for those ears that are bent with compassion to hear it."

"I laughed no more in triumph when thus alone. The little taste of victory did not satisfy a hunger in my heart. In my mind I saw my mother far away on the Western plains, and she was holding a charge against me."]]> 2017-01-06 03:47:45 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145626176 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145628084 1. "What would be the result of an attempt to plant American customs and civilization among the Germans in Germany, demanding that they shall become thoroughly American before we admit them to the country?"
2. "It is a great mistake to think that the Indian is born an inevitable savage."
3. "No evidence is wanting to show that, in our industries, the Indian can become a capable and willing factor if he has the chance."

]]> 2017-01-06 04:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145628084 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145633297 "We were led toward an open door, where the brightness of the lights within flooded out over the heads of the excited palefaces who blocked the way. My body trembled more from fear than from the snow I trod on."

"The man ceased his mutterings, and then a third bell was tapped. Every one picked up his knife and for and began eating . I began crying instead, for by this time I was afraid to venture anything anymore."

"Though I was sullen in all my little troubles, as soon I felt better I was ready again to smile upon the cruel woman. Within a week I was again actively testing the chains which tightly bound my individuality like a mummy for burial."]]> 2017-01-06 07:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/nab/wish/145633297