Cadete Quotes
You are stronger than we. We have fought you so long as we had rifles and powder; but your weapons are better than ours. Give us our weapons and turn us loose, and we will fight you again. But we are worn out; we have no more heart; we have no provisions, no means to live; your troops are everywhere; our springs and water holes are occupied … by your young men. You have driven us from our last and best stronghold, and we have no more heart. Do with us as may seem good to you, but do not forget that we are men.
Cadete, 19th Century Mescalero Apache Indian Chief, Speech when surrendering to Kit Carson, Fort Stanton, New Mexico
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In 1877 Gen. O. O. Howard and 600 men fought Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce warriors near Kamiah, Idaho. Outnumbered and outflanked, Chief Joseph headed his band toward the Canadian border, but before they reached it they were captured. Chief Joseph's surrender speech was recorded by General Howard's adjutant: Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain
They stopped and a massacre was averted.
In April 1832, Black Hawk led his warriors into Illinois to recapture their ancestral lands. The attempt was thwarted by American Army and Navy forces, and Black Hawk surrendered. Several months later he was sent East to meet with President Andrew Jackson. At that meeting, Black Hawk told the President:
This comprehensive report of 457 pages was written, printed and distributed at her expense prior to her Federal appointment.
The rationale for paying these Indians was given in the beginning of the treaty. See {612283}. In addition the treaty provided for the Federal government to build a flour mill and a saw mill and provide technical staff to operate and maintain them. In an interesting gesture the Federal government rebuilt a church that had been the house of worship for some Oneida Presbyterians. The English and the other Iroquois had burned the church to the ground. See {621968}. This is one of the few times in history, and certainly the first time, that the Federal government constructed a church for a particular sect. The other tribes of the Iroquois nation had allied themselves with the English. See {583726}. Only the Oneida joined the colonist cause. At the end of the war, the other Iroquois tribes were run out of the country and they escaped to Canada. The Oneida, in contrast, were rewarded by the Federal government and integrated into New York State society.
He argues that since the French Canadians have never won any battles that they have neither the confidence of the will to fight for their independence.
This editorial was written just after the Massacre of Wounded Knee. An irony is that this editor who called for the extermination of Native Americans was later the author of The Wizard of Oz.
Published 100 years after it was written. This is the first known written statement of what became a de facto policy regarding the American Indian.
Halsey was a big supporter of the use of the Atom Bomb against Japan. His ships had battled the Japanese navy from Pearl Harbor to Japan’s eventual surrender and had seen the cruelty of the Japanese occupation and aggression throughout the Pacific. His ships were the first to be sunk by Kamikaze suicide pilots at the Battle of Leyte Gulf where over 3000 American sailors were killed in the battle that finally destroyed the Japanese Navy’s ability to wage war.
He was a brutal officer who by modern standards committed various war crimes.
The Indian allies of the French scalped some American colonists which for some whites was akin to the modern reaction to terrorist atrocities. The British and Americans then justified the scalping of their Indian allies as simple retaliation. While Indians had scalped before the whites ever came, the whites accelerated the practice. There was an economic element to scalping. The French “paid” their Indian allies in arms, blankets, trinkets and alcohol by the scalp as it was a crude way of “performance measurement.” Not to be outdone, the English adopted the same custom with the French allied Indians as targets. In North Carolina, for example, the “volunteer” rangers were paid the enormous rate of 10 pounds a scalp.
Just before the Six Day War. Syria did take the initiative and provoked the war which the Arabs lost badly. Ironically, Egypt and Jordan, pushed into the war by Syria, lost the most in manpower and territory.
Enrique López Fernández, known as Cadete, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Kazakhstan Premier League club Astana.
