It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance. In fact, the Indian plays much the same role in our society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the miner’s canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith.
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. - Felix S. Cohen
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
- Felix S. Cohen
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance. In… - Felix S. Cohen
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance. In…
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