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Janet Campbell Hale Quotes

If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

Janet Campbell Hale
Men, Games, Play
Janet Campbell Hale (1987). “The Jailing of Cecelia Capture”, p.58, UNM Press

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

Janet Campbell Hale
Country, Italian, America
Janet Campbell Hale (1998). “Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter”, p.20, University of Arizona Press

She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.

Janet Campbell Hale
Goes On, Able, Return
Janet Campbell Hale (1987). “The Jailing of Cecelia Capture”, p.201, UNM Press

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