"You [white folks] have not only altered and malformed your winged and four-legged cousins; you have done it to yourselves.
You have changed men into chairmen of the boards, into office workers, into time-clock punchers.
You have changed your women into housewives, truly fearful creatures. I was once invited to the house of one.
"Watch the ashes, don't smoke, you'll stain the curtains. Watch the goldfish bowl, don't lean lean your head against the wallpaper; your hair might be greasy. Don't spill liquor on that table; it has a delicate finish. You should have wiped your boots; the floor was just varnished. Don't don't don't...'
That is crazy.... You live in prisons you have built for yourselves, calling them 'homes, offices, factories.""
- John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes,
Lame Deer Seeker of Visions
You have changed men into chairmen of the boards, into office workers, into time-clock punchers.
You have changed your women into housewives, truly fearful creatures. I was once invited to the house of one.
"Watch the ashes, don't smoke, you'll stain the curtains. Watch the goldfish bowl, don't lean lean your head against the wallpaper; your hair might be greasy. Don't spill liquor on that table; it has a delicate finish. You should have wiped your boots; the floor was just varnished. Don't don't don't...'
That is crazy.... You live in prisons you have built for yourselves, calling them 'homes, offices, factories.""
- John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes,
Lame Deer Seeker of Visions
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