Unsettling Truths by Mark Charles & Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah

Author:Mark Charles & Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Native American;American Indian;reconciliation;conciliation;indigenous;first nations;doctrine of discovery;American exceptionalism;triumphalism;colonialism;Abraham Lincoln;truth and reconciliation commissions;Christendom;Columbus;restitution;American history;dehumanization;colonization;broken treaties;trail of tears;merciless Indian savages;lament;racial justice;genocide;white supremacy;westward expansion;indian reservation;institutional racism;evangelical Christianity;minorities;dominant cultur
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2019-08-14T07:18:52+00:00

The Indians under our care remained savage, because forced back upon themselves and away from association with English-speaking and civilized people, and because of our savage example and treatment of them. . . . We have never made any attempt to civilize them with the idea of taking them into the nation, and all of our policies have been against citizenizing and absorbing them. . . . We make our greatest mistake in feeding our civilization to the Indians instead of feeding the Indians to our civilization.11

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