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Article: American Indians must join the war of words, and win
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- Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2001
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Egner, David
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
07-18-2001
American Indians must join the war of words, and win
For some 500 years, words have been among the most powerful weapons used in
the campaign to deprive American Indians of their lands and their lives.
Words justified the seizure of the United States by European colonists, the
extermination of much of the native population, and the forced relocation
of American Indians to isolated reservations.
American Indians had few weapons in this war of words. The battle was
carried out in European languages unknown to American Indians, and waged in
books, newspapers, speeches, schools, and later in films and electronic
media controlled exclusively by ...