WOA wrote:
feiming wrote:
是的,那叫“流泪之路”(trail of tears), 一万七千切诺基部落的印第安人在杰克逊法案签署之后,走上饥馑、悲伤和死亡的旅途,很多人在路上死去。
但有部分人在北卡罗来纳州的深山中隐身活下来(他们被抓住有生命危险),我计划的就是到北卡的山里寻找他们的后代。据说跟以赌博或者旅游为业的印第安人不同,他们保留了最原始的东西。
由于扯到了印第安人,我干脆另开一线。《Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee》,这就是我提到的书名,废名可能都看过,七十年代出版时曾引起轰动。现从书中择录几句(自己敲键盘啊),争取继续。
• When the Dutch came to Manhattan Island, Peter Minuit purchased it for sixty guilders in fishhooks and glass beads, but encouraged the Indians to remain and continue exchanging their valuable peltries for such trinkets. In 1641, Willem Kieft levied tribute upon the Mahicans and sent soldiers to Staten Island to punish the Raritans for offense which had been committed not by them but by white settlers. The Raritans resisted arrest, and the soldiers killed four of them. When the Indians retaliated by killing four Dutchmen, Kieft ordered the massacre of two entire villages while the inhabitants slept……for two more centuries these events were repeated again and again as the European colonists moved inland…...