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Chief Red Jacket: “If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it?”

“In retrospect, if the Amerindians had not reached this stage [of human relations] by 1492, European colonization could not have occurred. Instead, because of their skin colour, political structures, strange clothing, and religions, Europeans would have been either enslaved, repulsed, or exterminated upon arrival.”