1968: "What is the effect upon a student when he learns from his textbooks that one race, and one alone, is the most, the best, the greatest; when he learns that Indians were mere parts of the landscape and wilderness, which had to be cleared out to make way for the great movement of white population.."

The Indian Story

1968 April 18 Feather River Bulletin 

"Every part of this country is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has some memory of my tribe." - So spoke Chief Seathl of the Dwamish Tribe to Issac Stephens, governor of the Oregon Territory; and it is not difficult to imagine Stephens saying Yeah, sure... now just sign this treaty on this line right here," or whatever the 1855 version of the shrug-off might have been.

      "What is the effect upon a student when he learns from his textbooks that one race, and one alone, is the most, the best, the greatest; when he learns that Indians were mere parts of the landscape and wilderness, which had to be cleared out to make way for the great movement of white population across the land; and when he learns that Indians were killed and forcibly removed from their ancient homelands to make way for adventurers (pioneering goldminers), for landgrabbers (settlers), and for illegal squatters on Indian-owned land (frontiersmen)? 

      So speaks Jeannette Henry, editor of The Indian Historian, part Cherokee and holder of a masters degree from Columbia in American History...

1968 April 18 Feather River Bulletin