Nick Cave Quotes
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.
Cave, Nick. Interview by Noel Murray. "Lawless scribe Nick Cave on Australian vs. American outlaws." The A.V. Club, G/O Media, 5 Sep. 2012.
For his seditious activities he was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He escaped and came to America where he entered politics
See Montesquieu {618579} for a slightly earlier version.
The Turks had massacred the vast majority of their Armenian population, and treated the Greeks badly killing and them many of them from territories the Ottoman Turks had conquered. Jews fared better but were 2nd class citizens. Bristol was the American State Department’s senior official and was very “understanding” of the murders and ethnic cleansing despite the fact that President Wilson and most American politicians were very opposed to the Turkish massacres. See {620614} and {620599} . Two factors makes this quotation very significant. First, at the time the State Department was not really under the control of either the President or the Congress. It was not rare for the Department to have its own policies and implement them. This began to change in WWII and FDR exercised much more control than previous presidents since Theodore Roosevelt. The second factor is that there were many racists throughout the State Department—Bristol was only one. There was little concern for minorities’ welfare and the emphasis was on commerce. See {620600} Even in Truman’s administration, the President had massive opposition from the State Department for his policy of recognizing the State of Israel. Today, this kind of racism in the State Department is very rare, and human rights has been one of their major concerns. There were many changes in 75 years.
The meeting included several Indians, President Grant, and the Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Indians had been offered $25,000 and land in the Oklahoma Indian Territory in exchange for moving from their traditional lands.
No one at the time knew the answer to the question but we do today. The colonial whites brought small pox with them to the new world. The whites had many generations of building immunity to small pox so that only a small percentage of whites who contracted the disease would die. The Indians, however, had never before been in contact with small pox and their immune. Their systems had not had the time to evolve resistance to the disease. The same thing occurred with the Spanish conquistadors and the native people in Central and South America only the percentage of death was much higher than the Indians of North America—possibly due to more sexual and other interpersonal contact, possibly climate, and possibly the North American Indians were better nourished and generally healthier to better withstand the disease which wiped out the vast majority of the Indians of Central and South America.
The graphic is the famous Benjamin West painting of the treaty signing between the Lenape Indians and William Penn in 1686. Tenoughan was one of the Indians depicted at the signing but we do not know which one.
Fiji has extensive internal strife between the native Fiji Islanders and the Indians who the British colonists brought to Fiji as laborers. The former are culturally and politically very traditional and tribal; the latter are more democratic, global and professional.
Nicholas Edward Cave AO is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.
