“I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.” FeelsStoriesTodaySchoolRememberMotherFatherParentTakenTaughtImpactHearingAshamedNativeNative AmericanGrandparentMother And FatherReservationsParents And Grandparents Author:Chaske Spencer
“the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally ... taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.” WayPersonsIdeasWholeJoyAnimalTakenSeeingGainsLet MeLovelyForestsNervousOne WayNativeDispositionUngratefulLeopardsAudacious Book:Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons Source: Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
“The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.” ReligionWaitingForgetTakenSacrificeMastersConscienceMadnessLaysMiseryAlcoholMysteriousNativeRegionsSavagesRoutesPeasantsUnrealCrossroadsShadyGuinea Author:Jacques Roumain
“In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.” FatherTakenViolenceLandHonestDangerArmsIndustryLateLaysPropertyProtectionDefenseCeaseEnjoyedNativeHostilityViolationBirthrightAggressorsNative LandAgainst Violence Book:Jefferson: Political Writings Source: Jefferson: Political Writings