The words of the victims who perished under the great American
steamroller of Manifest Destiny and westward expansion. Miss
Armstrong has compiled the eloquent protests of the American
Indians from the 17th century to the present as they watched their
defeats and humiliations multiply across the decades. The occasion
for the speechifying is frequently the signing of an extorted
treaty - like the one in 1821 which ceded five million acres east
of Lake Michigan to the U.S. government. Many realized quite early
on what was happening. A Creek chief in 1829 predicted: "The time
is near when our race will become extinct. Resistance to the
aggression of the whites is useless." Editor Armstrong annotates
the selections and concentrates on the 18th and 19th centuries.
(Josephy's Red Power, p. 411, provides more contemporary and formal
claims for redress.) A brief introduction by Frederick W. Turner
suggests an anti-historical bias in American culture which
expresses itself as "the propensity to see ourselves as agents and
principal actors in world history and all others as props in our
production." Those aroused by Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee will
find further documentation of systematic destruction here. (Kirkus
Reviews)
"I Have Spoken" is a collection of American Indian oratory from the
17th to the 20th century, concentrating on speeches focusing around
Indian-white relationships, especially treaty-making negotiations.
A few letters and other writings are also included.
Here, in their own words, is the Indian's story told with
integrity, with drama, with caustic wit, with statesmanship, with
poetic impact; a story of proffered friendship, of broken promises,
of hope, of disillusionment, of pride, of a whole land and life
gone sour.
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