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I Know This Much Is True

by Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author)

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“You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more. [...] My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land, I wish to be an old man here. [...] I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father [the President]. Though he were to give me a million dollars I would not give him this land. [...] When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us. [...] My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.”
― Standing Bear

tags: aboriginals, first-nations, first-peoples, genocide, native-americans, natives, poncas, u-s-history, us-history

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“Poetry is, after all, only nonsense and justifies what would be considered impudence if written in prose.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

tags: books, creative-writing, literature, nonsense, poetry, prose, stories, writing

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“There was no hope on earth, and God seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the Son of God; others did not see Him. If He had come, He would do some great things as He had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither Him nor His works.”
― Red Cloud

tags: aboriginals, atheism, first-nations, god, native-americans, natives, religion, u-s-history, us-history

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“What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

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“We have been south and suffered a great deal down there. Many have died of diseases which we have no name for. Our hearts looked and longed for this country where we were born. There are only a few of us left, and we only wanted a little ground, where we could live. We left our lodges standing, and ran away in the night. The troops followed us. I rode out and told the troops we did not want to fight; we only wanted to go north, and if they would let us alone we would kill no one. The only reply we got was a volley. After that we had to fight our way, but we killed none who did not fire at us first. My brother, Dull Knife, took one-half of the band and surrendered near Fort Robinson. [...] They gave up their guns, and then the whites killed them all.”
― Little Wolf

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