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When Columbus first saw the island he described it as "very big and very level and the trees very green . . . the whole of it so green that it is a pleasure to gaze upon." the Europeans who followed him there destroyed its vegetation and its inhabitants - human, animal, bird, and fish - and after turning it into a wasteland, they abandoned it.
— Nov 27, 2025 09:21AM
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Already the once sweet-watered streams, most of which bore Indian names, were clouded with silt and the waste of man; the very Earth was being ravaged and squandered. To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy glades, the water, the soil, and the air itself.
— Nov 27, 2025 09:22AM
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They may learn something about their own relationship to the earth from a people who were true conservationists. The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.
— Nov 27, 2025 09:18AM
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history has a way of intruding upon the present, and perhaps those who read it will have a clearer understanding of what the American Indian is, by knowing what he was.
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