Vine Deloria, Jr., "God Is Red":
"Clearly the current tendency is to attempt to reclaim the nineteenth-century roots of social existence that can give us a sense of permanency in a world of increasing change. But the stability of that era was at best a mythological memory of a golden age. Our very refusal to acknowledge the failures of both American and world history and our patriotic effort to make it into a golden age show how pathetic and inadequate our tools for confronting change really are." pg. 291
"Within the traditions, beliefs, and customs of the American Indian people are the guidelines for society's future....White America and Western industrial societies have not heard the call of either the land or the aboriginal peoples." pg. 292
"Religion cannot be kept within the bounds of sermons and scriptures. It is a force in and of itself and it calls for the integration of lands and peoples in harmonious unity. The lands wait for those who can discern their rhythms. The peculiar genius of each continent-each river valley, the rugged mountains, the placid lakes-all call for relief from the constant burden of exploitation." pg. 292
"The future of human-kind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things. Who will listen to the trees, the animals and birds, the voices of the places of the land? As the long-forgotten people of the respective continents rise and begin to reclaim their ancient heritage, they will discover the meaning of the lands of their ancestors. That is when the invaders of the North American continent will finally discover that for this land, God is red." pg. 292
Gord Hill, "500 Years of Indigenous Resistance":
"...it was not even called "America" by [indigenous] people. If there was any reference to the land as a whole it was as Turtle Island, or Cuscatlan, or Abya-Yala." pg.7
"Tragedy: The United States Is Created" - chapter title, pg. 27
"Under the ideology of Manifest Destiny, the U.S. was to launch a renewed period of genocidal war against those regions and First Nations which remained subjugated. The theatre of war extended from the Great Lakes region around Minnesota, south of the Rio Grande, and west to California, extending north to Washington State." pg. 36
John Henrik Clarke, "Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise European Capitalism":
"[Dr. Clarke] challenges the Eurocentric view of Columbus as a "discoverer" and states that he set in motion the genocidal process and renewed western racism. Professor Clarke points out that Columbus set in motion political forces that established a global system of exploitation. This system has its roots in the Columbus Era and produced European world domination." from foreword by Leonard Jeffries
"The U.S. imperialists love Columbus. They have named cities, counties, towns, rivers, colleges, parks, streets and even their capital after him....Yet, to the people, the facts are plain: Columbus was a thief, an invader, an organizer of rape of Indian women, a slave trader, a reactionary religious fanatic, and the personal director of a campaign for mass murder of defenseless peoples." quote from an article by Mike Ely as written in Introduction by Edward Scobie
Jan Carew, "Fulcrums of Change: Origins of Racism in the Americas and other Essays":
"Those "Indians" marked down for doom by Columbus were not even accorded the dignity of being called by the names they had used to define themselves from time immemorial. Over and over again, up and down the Americas, others must have echoed the cry of that nameless Native American who had asked the Massachusetts missionary John Eliot in 1646, "Why do you keep calling us Indians?" (Berkhofer: p. 4)" pg. 7
"The fallacious claim that Columbus "discovered" America is one that has brought into being a stubborn neo-creationist myth. The creators of this myth have contended that this hemisphere of twin continents and islands had remained hidden beyond awesome and forbidding western seas waiting for the bold and intrepid Columbus to find it and to reveal its existence to the Old World. Implicit in these spurious assumptions were other sophisms: that contacts between explorers, sea rovers, traders and adventurers, and native peoples had of necessity to be based on the certainty that might is always right and that discovery automatically brought in its train enslavement and ethnocide for the indigenous peoples." pg. 8
"Columbus' linguistic abilities, in fact, left much to be desired. Throughout his life,he never penned a single word in his native Italian, and one can assume, quite justifiably from this fact that he was illiterate when he left Genoa and that he had learned Spanish, Latin and a smattering of Portuguese as an adult." pg. 8
"African cultural influences in pre-Columbian America has been presented, Eurocentric scholars have suddenly developed an intellectual myopia, claiming that they could see shadows, but not substance. The truth is that they have been conditioned to see Negro-Africans as slaves, servants, buffoons, gladiators of fortune and figments of a colonizer's imagination for so long that they have become victims of their own racist propaganda." pg. 11
Alberigo [emphasis ours] Vespucci and "America" from Carew's "Fulcrums of Change":
"Alberigo was undoubtedly a Florentine dilettante, but he was also an extraordinarily clever one. Why would he otherwise have changed his Christian name after his voyages to the Americas? There is a mountain range in Nicaragua called the Sierra Amerrique, and a group of Indians called Los Amerriques....Both navigators [Vespucci and Columbus] must certainly have heard the world "Amerrique" from the Indians over and over again during those voyages." pg. 96-97
"Robbing peoples and countries of their indigenous names was one of the cruel games that colonizers played with the colonized. names are like magic markers in the long and labyrinthine streams of racial memory, for racial memories are rivers leading to the sea where the memory of mankind is stored. To rob people or countries of their names is to set in motion a psychic disturbance which can in turn create a permanent crisis of identity. As if to underline this fact, the theft of an important place-name from the heartland of the Americas and the claim that it was a dilettante's Christian name robs the original name of its elemental meaning." pg. 98
"The name AMERICA or AMERRIQUE in the Mayan language means, a country of perpetually strong wind, or the Land of the Wind, and sometimes the suffix "-ique", "-ik", and "-ika" can mean not only wind or air but also a spirit that breathes, life itself (Marcou, 1888d:6)." pg. 98
[linguistic note: in Kiswahili, the word "upepo" means wind and the word "pepo" refers to spirit. - US]
"Clearly the current tendency is to attempt to reclaim the nineteenth-century roots of social existence that can give us a sense of permanency in a world of increasing change. But the stability of that era was at best a mythological memory of a golden age. Our very refusal to acknowledge the failures of both American and world history and our patriotic effort to make it into a golden age show how pathetic and inadequate our tools for confronting change really are." pg. 291
"Within the traditions, beliefs, and customs of the American Indian people are the guidelines for society's future....White America and Western industrial societies have not heard the call of either the land or the aboriginal peoples." pg. 292
"Religion cannot be kept within the bounds of sermons and scriptures. It is a force in and of itself and it calls for the integration of lands and peoples in harmonious unity. The lands wait for those who can discern their rhythms. The peculiar genius of each continent-each river valley, the rugged mountains, the placid lakes-all call for relief from the constant burden of exploitation." pg. 292
"The future of human-kind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things. Who will listen to the trees, the animals and birds, the voices of the places of the land? As the long-forgotten people of the respective continents rise and begin to reclaim their ancient heritage, they will discover the meaning of the lands of their ancestors. That is when the invaders of the North American continent will finally discover that for this land, God is red." pg. 292
Gord Hill, "500 Years of Indigenous Resistance":
"...it was not even called "America" by [indigenous] people. If there was any reference to the land as a whole it was as Turtle Island, or Cuscatlan, or Abya-Yala." pg.7
"Tragedy: The United States Is Created" - chapter title, pg. 27
"Under the ideology of Manifest Destiny, the U.S. was to launch a renewed period of genocidal war against those regions and First Nations which remained subjugated. The theatre of war extended from the Great Lakes region around Minnesota, south of the Rio Grande, and west to California, extending north to Washington State." pg. 36
John Henrik Clarke, "Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise European Capitalism":
"[Dr. Clarke] challenges the Eurocentric view of Columbus as a "discoverer" and states that he set in motion the genocidal process and renewed western racism. Professor Clarke points out that Columbus set in motion political forces that established a global system of exploitation. This system has its roots in the Columbus Era and produced European world domination." from foreword by Leonard Jeffries
"The U.S. imperialists love Columbus. They have named cities, counties, towns, rivers, colleges, parks, streets and even their capital after him....Yet, to the people, the facts are plain: Columbus was a thief, an invader, an organizer of rape of Indian women, a slave trader, a reactionary religious fanatic, and the personal director of a campaign for mass murder of defenseless peoples." quote from an article by Mike Ely as written in Introduction by Edward Scobie
Jan Carew, "Fulcrums of Change: Origins of Racism in the Americas and other Essays":
"Those "Indians" marked down for doom by Columbus were not even accorded the dignity of being called by the names they had used to define themselves from time immemorial. Over and over again, up and down the Americas, others must have echoed the cry of that nameless Native American who had asked the Massachusetts missionary John Eliot in 1646, "Why do you keep calling us Indians?" (Berkhofer: p. 4)" pg. 7
"The fallacious claim that Columbus "discovered" America is one that has brought into being a stubborn neo-creationist myth. The creators of this myth have contended that this hemisphere of twin continents and islands had remained hidden beyond awesome and forbidding western seas waiting for the bold and intrepid Columbus to find it and to reveal its existence to the Old World. Implicit in these spurious assumptions were other sophisms: that contacts between explorers, sea rovers, traders and adventurers, and native peoples had of necessity to be based on the certainty that might is always right and that discovery automatically brought in its train enslavement and ethnocide for the indigenous peoples." pg. 8
"Columbus' linguistic abilities, in fact, left much to be desired. Throughout his life,he never penned a single word in his native Italian, and one can assume, quite justifiably from this fact that he was illiterate when he left Genoa and that he had learned Spanish, Latin and a smattering of Portuguese as an adult." pg. 8
"African cultural influences in pre-Columbian America has been presented, Eurocentric scholars have suddenly developed an intellectual myopia, claiming that they could see shadows, but not substance. The truth is that they have been conditioned to see Negro-Africans as slaves, servants, buffoons, gladiators of fortune and figments of a colonizer's imagination for so long that they have become victims of their own racist propaganda." pg. 11
Alberigo [emphasis ours] Vespucci and "America" from Carew's "Fulcrums of Change":
"Alberigo was undoubtedly a Florentine dilettante, but he was also an extraordinarily clever one. Why would he otherwise have changed his Christian name after his voyages to the Americas? There is a mountain range in Nicaragua called the Sierra Amerrique, and a group of Indians called Los Amerriques....Both navigators [Vespucci and Columbus] must certainly have heard the world "Amerrique" from the Indians over and over again during those voyages." pg. 96-97
"Robbing peoples and countries of their indigenous names was one of the cruel games that colonizers played with the colonized. names are like magic markers in the long and labyrinthine streams of racial memory, for racial memories are rivers leading to the sea where the memory of mankind is stored. To rob people or countries of their names is to set in motion a psychic disturbance which can in turn create a permanent crisis of identity. As if to underline this fact, the theft of an important place-name from the heartland of the Americas and the claim that it was a dilettante's Christian name robs the original name of its elemental meaning." pg. 98
"The name AMERICA or AMERRIQUE in the Mayan language means, a country of perpetually strong wind, or the Land of the Wind, and sometimes the suffix "-ique", "-ik", and "-ika" can mean not only wind or air but also a spirit that breathes, life itself (Marcou, 1888d:6)." pg. 98
[linguistic note: in Kiswahili, the word "upepo" means wind and the word "pepo" refers to spirit. - US]