A Language Older Than Words - Derrick Jensen [179]
"We are the ..." is in Dolores LaChapelle's extraordinary Sacred Land
Sacred Sex, citing Paula Gunn Allen's "The Psychological Landscape
of Ceremony." "Since nature ..." is from Aristotle's Poetics. "I perceived it to be .. ." is from Descartes' Discourse on Method. "My only earthly wish ..." is from Bacons New Organon. "I am come .. ." is from Bacon's Temporis Partus Masculus. The account of the robo-roaches is from the Spokesman-Review, January
10, 1997. The vivisection accounts come from Singer's Animal Liberation, Ruesch's
Slaughter of the Innocent, and Levin's and Danielson's Cardiac Arrest.
None of these books are for the faint of heart.
For information on the Sand Creek Massacre I am indebted to Stannard, who provided an excellent analysis, and pointed me toward three earlier sources, Svaldi's Sand Creek, Hoig's The Sand Creek Massacre, and the U.S. Congressional inquiry volumes.
Taking a Life
"Today we took ..." is from Jack Forbes' Columbus and Other Cannibals,
a short but crucial book. The "conversation of death" materials are from Barry Lopez's Of Wolves
and Men.
Cultural Eyeglasses
"All through school..." is from E.F. Schumacher's A Guide For the Perplexed.
The incidence study for child abuse is put out by the Centers For Disease Control.
The headlines "Defiant activist defends guerrillas" and "Mother bear charges trains" are from the Spokesman-Review, Jan 9, 1996, and April 29, 1996, respectively.
I learned about the levels of alcoholism among einsatzgruppen from Robert Jay Lifton's important The Nazi Doctors.
I don't remember where I first heard about the "black line" in Tasmania— it must have been when I was a child—but the image had long haunted me. When my dart hit the map there (no, that wasn't a literary device), I headed to the library and Internet. A very good source is Fate of a Free People: A Radical Re-examination of the Tasmanian Wars, by Henry Reynolds. The quote "It was a favourite ..." is from Lehman's The Battle for Tasmanian Aboriginal Heritage, citing Hull's 1850 Experience of Forty Years in Tasmania.
"the races who rest..." was cited in Stannard. The citation for the awful incident where settlers kicked the heads of infants is the book Massacres to Mining: The Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia, by Janine E Roberts.
The quotes regarding Africans are cited in Mostert.
The quote concerning Hawai'ians is cited in Stannard.
The political cartoon by my neighbor was in the now-defunct New Press of Spokane.
"Some Christians encounter. . ."isfromTodorovs The Conquest of America. "At about 1:00 p.m...." is from Jonas' Battle for Guatemala. Stannard pointed me toward both of these books.
Cranes
"God does not send us . . ." is from Hesse's Reflections.
The Safety of Metaphor
"The most striking ..." is cited in Susan Griffin's Pornography and Silence:
Cultures Revenge Against Nature. "no human bodies . . ." is from the Spokesman-Review, June 3, 1996.
Claims to Virtue
"Exploitation must not. .." is from Laing's Politics.
"And seest among ..." is from Deuteronomy.
"shall welcome [her] husband's . . ." is from Genesis.
"I thank thee ..." is cited in Mary Daly's Beyond God the Father.
John Perlin succinctly tells the story of the planet's deforestation in A Forest Journey.
Many books describe the beauty and natural opulence of North America prior to the arrival of civilization. One of the best, and most heartbreaking, is Farley Mowat s Sea of Slaughter.
The exchange described by Captain John Chester is from Quinn's The Voyages and Colonizing Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert.
"a rich heiress ..." is from Sobel's Wall Street.
The TertuUian quote is from "On the Apparel of Women." The whole quotation is: "You are the devil's gateway. . . . You are the first deserter of the divine law; you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God's image, man. On account of your desert—that is, death—even the Son of God had to die." I guess what he's saying is that things would be okay for men—who are of course the images