WILLIAM APPIS


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William Appis

The whites introduced among them [the Indians] the fatal and exterminating conditions of modern life.
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First Published American Indian Author

William Appis

What is it among you whites that makes you think that Jesus Christ is yours?
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William Appis

You send missionaries among us to teach us your ways, and when we do so, we meet immovable discrimination.
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William Appis

To look upon the massacre of our fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers, and if we speak we are called savages ….
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First Published American Indian Author. His last public speech. He was referring to a horrible massacre of Christian Indians and the polarizing effect that such conflicts had. Whosoever publicly castigated a massacre of whites or Indians would be met by accusations of condoning the massacres of the other side and ignoring the inevitable and natural seeking of retaliation for future protection and revenge.

William Appis

All men must operate under one general law.
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First Published American Indian Author. His last public speech.

William Appis

Have you the folly to think that the white men … are the only beloved images of God …. I am satisfied with the manner of my creation, my skin, my people—even if other people are not.
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William Appis

No writer … has any life in the absence of people who need what he writes
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First Published American Indian Author. His last public speech.

William Appis

In vain have I looked for the Christian to take me by the hand and invite me to his cabin the way our fathers welcomed him, not out of curiosity, but out of friendship.
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