Camilla Townsend
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New York City, NY, The United States
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“For who can say which is the more empowered, them or us, if we can speak to each other successfully across the chasm of time and difference? Do we ourselves not become wiser and stronger every time we grasp the perspective of people whom we once dismissed?”
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“Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only silence”
― Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
― Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
“As part of the evolving belief that the Indians would be only too glad to become literal and figurative tribute-payers to the English nation, contemporary scholars had worked out an interesting theory: the indigenous Americans, they claimed, were very much like the ancient Britons--who had themselves been civilized by the Romans. This theory was both condescending and yet at the same time beautifully unprejudiced. On the one hand, it justified English insistence that they were superior in every regard at the present time; on the other, it acknowledged that there were no differences between English and natives.”
― Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series
― Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series
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