Sublime

young John Bear discovered basketball and Wilfred Dick, then a four-foot-two point guard. It was hatred at first sight, the kind of grand romantic hatred that in thirteen-year-old boys is indistinguishable from or the nearest they can get to love.

ursine.

the earth like the settlers, they are immediately exposed to a very formidable competition. The white man is skilled in the craft of agriculture; the Indian is a rough beginner in an art with which he is unacquainted. The former reaps abundant crops without difficulty, the latter meets with a thousand obstacles in raising the fruits of the earth.

The Aztecs learned about the seeds, the source of the brown powder, from the Mayas.

FAMOUS AUTHOR whose birth name was Eric Arthur Blair, but is known best by his pen name, George Orwell, wrote: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

the Indian “must be imbued with the exalting egotism of American civilization so that he will say ‘I’ instead of ‘We,’ and ‘This is mine’ instead of ‘This is ours.’”