For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One's native land! There should one live! There die!
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.
Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.
What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life.
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.