Singing of the Wrongs and Heroism of the Indians

“It makes little difference ... where one opens the record of the history of the Indians; every page and every year has its dark stain.... “Neither time nor place makes any difference in the main facts. Colorado is as greedy and unjust in 1880 as was Georgia in 1830, and Ohio in 1795; and the United States Government breaks promises as deftly as then, and with an added ingenuity from long practice.” Those passionate words by a middle-aged, middle-class New England journalist named Hele