“mainland of America, the Wampanoags of Massasoit and King Philip had vanished, along with the Chesapeakes, the Chickahominys, and the Potomacs of the great Powhatan confederacy. If I had a father and mother like you, I would be with them and they with me” No one cares for Cochise that is why I do not care to live, and wish the rocks to fall on me and cover me up.
“I have no father nor mother I am alone in the world. Tell me, if the Virgin Mary has walked throughout all the land, why has she never entered the wickiups of the Apaches? Why have we never seen or heard her?
You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts. The Apaches were once a great nation they are now but few, and because of this they want to die and so carry their lives on their fingernails. They roam over the hills and plains and want the heavens to fall on them. How is it? Why is it that the Apaches wait to die-that they carry their lives on their fingernails. After many summers I walked again and found another race of people had come to take it. “When I was young I walked all over this country, east and west, and saw no other people than the Apaches. To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature-the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy glades, the water, the soil, and the air itself.”īury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Already the once sweet-watered streams, most of which bore Indian names, were clouded with silt and the wastes of man the very earth was being ravaged and squandered. (Only Uncas was remembered.) Their musical names remained forever fixed on the American land, but their bones were forgotten in a thousand burned villages or lost in forests fast disappearing before the axes of twenty million invaders.
Machapungas, Catawbas, Cheraws, Miamis, Hurons, Eries, Mohawks, Senecas, and Mohegans. (Only Pocahontas was remembered.) Scattered or reduced to remnants were the Pequots, Montauks, Nanticokes. “On the mainland of America, the Wampanoags of Massasoit and King Philip had vanished, along with the Chesapeakes, the Chickahominys, and the Potomacs of the great Powhatan confederacy.
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