The American ideal ... of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and I...ndians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden--as an unpatriotic act--that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, ...sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it shoul...d always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said "Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with," and it must be so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John Eliot came to preach to the Podunks in 1657, translated the Bible into their language, but made little progress in aboriginal... soul-saving. The Indians answered his pleas with: 'No, you have taken away our lands, and now you wish to make us a race of slaves.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the only "wet" community in a wide area, and is the rendezvous of cow hands seeking to break the monotony of chuck wagon f...ood and range life. Friday night is the "big time" for local cowboys, and consequently the calaboose is called the "Friday night jail."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wilson was a visionary who liked to identify himself with "forward-looking man"; Harding ... was as old-fashioned as those wooden ...Indians which used to stand in front of cigar stores.... Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehen...d why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be cel...ebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »