re-mem-bered

Updated: May 15, 2025

Penn said, "I will not call you my children, because fathers some-times whip their children. I will not call you brothers, because brothers sometimes fall out. But I will call you the same person as the white people. We are the two parts of the same body." The Indians could not write. But they had their way of putting down things that they wished to have re-mem-bered.

Edward Eggleston - Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans