“I used to think it was our fault for being poor, and hungry, and dirty, and wild, because we are; we are those things. But since I have come here, I begin to think it is not our fault. I begin to think we were made like that. I begin to think that who we were before, the things we believed in, the way we thought and spoke and lived were so different from the ways of these other people who took our land that they couldn’t understand us, and the easy thing was to think us less than them, less than people, and then to believe it their right to take what we had.”
