 | 1886 - 90 sider
...is no enterprise to make your home any better than that of your neighbors. There is no selfishness, which is at the bottom of civilization. Till this...are in our midst. Although they own territory, and have a population capable of becoming a State of this nation, instead of becoming part and lot with... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs - 1934 - 124 sider
...your home any better than that of your neighbors. There is no selfishness, which is at the botto n of civilization. Till this people will consent to...that each can own the land he cultivates, they will no* make much more progress. But voices of doubt were here and there raised about allotment as a wholesale... | |
 | United States U. S. Congress. House. Committee on Indian affairs - 1934 - 584 sider
...your home any better than that of your neighbors. There is no selfishness, which is at the botto n of civilization. Till this people will consent to...that each can own the land he cultivates, they will nou make much more progress. But voices of doubt were here and there raised about allotment as a wholesale... | |
 | Angie Debo - 1973 - 474 sider
...is no enterprise to make your home any better than that of your neighbors. There is no selfishness, which is at the bottom of civilization. Till this...cultivates, they will not make much more progress." 36 The Conference accepted this viewpoint, and continued to advocate "reform" with all the earnestness... | |
 | Sharon O'Brien - 1993 - 372 sider
...is no enterprise to make your home any better than that of your neighbors. There is no selfishness, which is at the bottom of civilization. Till this people will consent to give up their lands, and their citizens so that each can own the land he cultivates, they will not make much more progress.... | |
 | Richard White - 1991 - 668 sider
...is no enterprise to make your home any better than that of your neighbors. There is no selfishness, which is at the bottom of civilization. . . . Till...cultivates, they will not make much more progress." Indians had no recourse against this kind of stubborn ideology that used even the Indians' success... | |
 | Terry Lee Anderson - 1992 - 284 sider
...a commons. Senator Dawes expressed this view when he concluded about the Five Civilized Tribes that "Till this people will consent to give up their lands,...own the land he cultivates, they will not make much progress" (cited in Otis 1973, 10-1 1).2 The second concern of reformers and modern scholars was that... | |
 | Wilma Mankiller, Michael Wallis - 2000 - 376 sider
...enterprise to make your home any better than your neighbors. There is no selfishness [italics added], which is at the bottom of civilization Till this people...cultivates, they will not make much more progress." Dawes and his congressional allies convinced themselves that tribal ownership of land was an abysmal... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 1993 - 340 sider
...enterprise to make your home any better than that of your neighbors. There is no selfishness, which is the bottom of civilization. Till this people will...cultivates, they will not make much more progress. In brief, though superficially civilized and advanced, the people remained culturally deprived, unable... | |
 | David Chidester, Edward T. Linenthal - 1995 - 372 sider
...is no enterprise to make your home any better than that of your neighbors. There is no selfishness, which is at the bottom of civilization. Till this...will consent to give up their lands, and divide them ... so that each can own the land he cultivates, they will not make much more progress. — Senator... | |
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There is no selfishness, which is at the bottom of civilization. Till this people will consent to give up their lands, and divide them among their citizens so that each can own the land he cultivates, they will not make much more progress. 
