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([Joel:] “It was war. It was the instinct to survive. They moved in and everybody could have coexisted together but it just didn’t work that way. We were proud . We lived in a beautiful, but in the sense that this world has plenty, that there was nothing there. We lived and lived successfully. There were hard times. There was summer and there was famine and there were some pretty bad winters, but we were a success. We had been on that land a long time and then you people came in and looked down on us. You thought we were a bunch of savages and you wouldn’t be friends with us or talk to us. You didn’t want to talk to us—we were a bunch of animals yet you lived in hovels made out of dirt. You held yourselves up and thought you were so great and inadvertently or intentionally you began to destroy us at first and then it became more of a pattern because then you sensed that your survival was hinging on it too. Then it became kind of a guerilla warfare on both sides and it accelerated. It wasn’t necessary at all, but I guess we didn’t know that then.”

([Bette:] “I didn’t know I didn’t belong there and I didn’t really care about the Indians. All I cared about was my own.”

([Joel:] “You knew that Indian men and women and children were dying. Didn’t that affect you at all? Didn’t you care?”

([Bette:] “All we knew was who was on the warpath and when.”

([Bette:] “No. I was in my own little existence. All I cared about were my own kids and you took care of that.”

([Joel:] “It just seems that you are awfully quick to condemn. After all the first blood let that day was not ours.”

([Joel:] “You said it’s all over, and you don’t feel that dislike anymore.”

([Joel:] “How about if you met your husband sometime in this life. Would you feel the same kind of forgiving spirit for him and acceptance for him that you seem to for me now? Now that you are working it all out and letting it out now?”

([Bette:] “Yes. I learned a lot from that lifetime because I am a regular crusader when it comes to Indians and it’s a wonder I haven’t grabbed a sword and said, ‘charge’, because I have great feelings for the Indians. I have had more fights when there has been racial talks and discussions on the blacks and the whites and so on. Somehow I always managed to get the Indian into the argument so evidently I have forgiven all that they did to me until l saw Joel, and then it all came back.”

([Bette:] “I feel all right. I felt fine towards Joel the first night because the minute you started talking, for weeks I had been coming to class, when I would see the war paint on him I would get a terrible pain in my head. I remarked several times in class about I had this pain in my head, and I couldn’t work it out no matter what I did. And that night here in the room when you were talking it was like somebody was pulling something out of my head, and I have not had this pain or this pressure since.”

([Joel:] “Well, it may be completely resolved on all levels but you recognize the intellectual first anyway.”

([Jane:] “I suggest for now we will let it ride although I don’t think we have really gone all the way out of it. I don’t think we got it all. I think maybe you’ll move to get rid of the emotions that I sense you’ve got.”