“It was then I knew I was coming home to my people”
Author: historyiswhat
“When white society succeeds it’s called colonialism. When white society’s efforts to colonize people are met with resistance it’s called war. But when the colonized Indians of North America meet to stand and resist we are called criminals.”
“The poor man knows only that he has a country because he has to serve in the army, and the benefits he receives from the country are the clubbing by the cop, the taxes to pay the government’s costs…”
“Parliamentarism is the art of making sufferers have patience eternally.”
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War – E. Reclus (1898)
“What is there astonishing in war breaking out when the whole of society, as constitutions and institutions have created it, rests on hostile interests and that a rumbling struggle rages in the depths?”
“Are we dogs or wolves?”
“As long as there are States, there will be no peace.”
“The longest war that the United States government has ever waged has been against the American Indians. The war has never ceased.”
“Guided by Indian representatives from the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), they saw the largest open pit uranium mine in the world, the Jackpile mine on the Laguna reservation, where Native American miners are on strike for a new contract.”
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The Last Speech of Deskaheh (1925)
“You would call it Canada. We do not.”
“This biography of the development of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash as Indian woman and revolutionary shows feminists, Indian activists, and all serious revolutionaries why our enemies were so anxious to end her life and thought.”
“Anyone who witnessed the murders of Black leaders like Fred Hampton in [1969] under the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations knows the lengths to which they are willing to go to crush progressive movements.”
“‘Brave Hearted Woman,’ a 90-minute documentary film on the death of Indian activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, touched the hearts of a good-sized crowd at SF State’s McKenna Theater Tuesday and raised disturbing questions about American law officials’ dealings with Indians.”
“Many feel that they are the objects of a vendetta and have a genuine fear that the FBI is ‘out to get them’ because of their involvement in Wounded Knee and in other crisis situations.”
“Aquash participated in the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee and the struggle that has ensued since then on the reservation against repression by local and federal authorities.”
“Every war is evil — whether it ends in victory or defeat. Evil on the one hand for the combatants and on the other for the neutrals. I do not believe in ‘beneficent’ wars.”
“…Lilian pleaded guilty, remarking that ‘there seemed little to say, as her whole crime appeared to be that of telling the truth.'”
“After the uprising in 1885 the guard room at Fort Battleford became quite inadequate to accommodate the large number of prisoners arrested.”
“Therefore, how futile it is for an Anarchist above all to take sides with any government. He not only discredits himself with his comrades but he places himself in a ridiculous position with those whose side he adheres to.”
“How can that break down which has not been built up? How can that become debauched which already is debauched and debauching?”
“There are many who perceive that they have been tricked out of their homes and jobs by a cheap phraseology, the emptiness and deception of which they now feel keenly enough.”
“War inevitably means the steam-roller. It means crushing out every spark of initiative, of independence of mind.”
