“Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught "talking Indian" suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.”

[Kill the Indian, Save the Man]: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA, November 2004, 55, 0872864340]
Churchill's source: [Haig-Brown, Celia, Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School, Tillacum Library, Vancouver, BC, April 1, 1988, 0889781893]

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, c…" by Ward Churchill?
Ward Churchill photo
Ward Churchill 14
Political activist 1947

Related quotes

Stephen Harper photo
Hariprasad Chaurasia photo

“Indigenous musicians in our backyard, who are also world-famous and as successful –people like hariprasad Chaurasia or Bhimsen Joshi. Why? Because they remain as desi as desi ghee. They dress Indian, talk Indian, walk Indian, eat Indian (paan, horror of horrors!), think Indian, feel Indian.”

Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938) Indian bansuri player

On the overzealous attention given in India to Zubin Mehta who was just born a :parsee in India but has lived overseas most of his life and comes to India occasionally. Quoted in [Shobhaa De, Superstar India: From Incredible To Unstoppable, http://books.google.com/books?id=8yX2H_8UmfUC&pg=PT41, 2 April 2009, Penguin Books Limited, 978-0-14-192374-1, 41–]

“Indian', [mom said], you will write Indian. And if they have a problem with that let them come and talk to me. They have no business asking you your religion. How is that the basis for an educational qualification?”

Protima Bedi (1948–1998) Indian model and dancer

Reply to her daughter Pooja Bedi who was filling a form in the school in [Bedi, Ibrahim, Pooja, Timepass, http://books.google.com/books?id=8Ykpao-TL-AC, April 2003, Penguin Books India, 978-0-14-028880-3, vii]

“With the Muslim conquest the position of Indian women suffered a set-back.”

K. S. Lal (1920–2002) Indian historian

Quoted from the review by Riazul Islam.
Twilight of the Sultanate (1963)

Wendy Doniger photo
Philip José Farmer photo

“Here and Now are needles which
Sew a pattern black as pitch,
Waiting for the rocket's light.”

Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer

"Imagination" in America Sings (1949)
Context: Miles above the Earth we know,
Fancy's rocket roars. Below,
Here and Now are needles which
Sew a pattern black as pitch,
Waiting for the rocket's light.

R. H. Tawney photo

“The primary school is like the rope which the Indian juggler throws into the air to end in vacancy”

R. H. Tawney (1880–1962) English philosopher

Secondary Education For All (1922)
Context: The primary school is like the rope which the Indian juggler throws into the air to end in vacancy; that while in the United States some twenty-eight per cent, of the children entering the primary schools pass to high schools, in England the percentage passing from elementary to secondary schools is less than ten.

Alexis De Tocqueville photo

“The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.”

Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter I-V, Chapter I.

Ward Churchill photo

Related topics