
“I believe the Indian then to be in body and mind equal to the white man.”
1780s, Letter to the Marquis de Chastellux (1785)
As quoted in "Vine Deloria Jr." by Melissa Lorenz EMuseum @ Minnesota State University, Mankato (2008) https://web.archive.org/web/20080925082716/http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mncultures/vinedeloriajr.htm
“I believe the Indian then to be in body and mind equal to the white man.”
1780s, Letter to the Marquis de Chastellux (1785)
Address To The Graduating Class Of The United States Military Academy at West Point, 1974
“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars.”
Lincoln Hall Speech (1879)
Context: Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike — brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
Quoted in Seeking a Nation Within a Nation, CBC Canada https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPCONTENTSE1EP5CH12LE.html
“The blacks want what the whites have, which is understandable. They want in. We Indians want out!”
That is the main difference.
Source: Lakota Woman (1990), p. 77
In Life and Journals of Kah-ke-wa-quo-nā-by: (Rev. Peter Jones,) Wesleyan Missionary http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Life_and_Journals_of_Keh-ke-wa-guo-n%C4%81-ba:_(Rev._Peter_Jones%2C)_Wesleyan_Missionary/Autobiography, quoted in: Rev. Ken Herfst Peter Jones - Sacred Feathers - and the Mississauga Indians http://www.frcna.org/messenger/Archive.ASP?Issue=200405&Article=1098711706 Free Reformed Churches of North America Messenger, May 2004.