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part one Resilience The White Man’s Burden Take up the White man’s burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go find your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. Rudyard Kipling Resilience is required of anyone who wishes to survive. Whether bonds of prison or bonds in our own mind, resilience offers hope to a dismal future, even if the end is near. In the last year of the nineteenth century, with the fall of Indian nations, Rudyard Kipling offered the above poem to Queen Victoria signaling American foreign policy in the Philippines following the brief Spanish-American War. These critical words exemplify the colonized suppression that American Indians have had to overcome. Resilience is the ability to recover from a dire situation, and this is an essential step toward rebuilding. Even more, Native people have had to overcome the perception of a defeated people and second-class treatment, in addition to proving to the government and others that they have succeeded in the white man’s world of American capitalism. ...

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