A Language Older Than Words (52 page)

The incidence study for child abuse is put out by the Centers For Disease Control.

The headlines "Defiant activist defends guerrillas" and "Mother bear charges
trains" are from the
Spokesman-Review,
Jan 9, 1996, and April 29, 1996, respectively.

I learned about the levels of alcoholism among
einsatzgruppen
from Robert Jay Lifton's important
The Nazi Doctors.

I don't remember where I first heard about the "black line" in Tasmania—
it must have been when I was a child—but the image had long haunted
me. When my dart hit the map there (no, that wasn't a literary device), I headed to the library and Internet. A very good source is
Fate
of a Free People: A Radical Re-examination of the Tasmanian Wars,
by
Henry Reynolds. The quote "It was a favourite ..." is from Lehman's
The Battle for Tasmanian Aboriginal Heritage,
citing Hull's 1850
Expe
rience of Forty Years in Tasmania.

"the races who rest..." was cited in Stannard. The citation for the awful incident where settlers kicked the heads of infants is the book
Massa
cres to Mining: The Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia,
by Janine E
Roberts.

The quotes regarding Africans are cited in Mostert.

The quote concerning Hawai'ians is cited in Stannard.

The political cartoon by my neighbor was in the now-defunct
New Press
of Spokane.

"Some Christians encounter. . ."isfromTodorovs
The Conquest of America.
"At about 1:00 p.m.
..."
is from Jonas'
Battle for Guatemala.
Stannard
pointed me toward both of these books.

Cranes

"God does not send us . . ." is from Hesse's
Reflections.

The Safety of Metaphor

"The most striking ..." is cited in Susan Griffin's
Pornography and Silence:

Cultures Revenge Against Nature.
"no human bodies . . ." is from the
Spokesman-Review,
June 3, 1996.

Claims to Virtue

"Exploitation must not. .." is from Laing's
Politics.

"And seest among ..." is from
Deuteronomy.

"shall welcome [her] husband's . . ." is from
Genesis.

"I thank thee ..." is cited in Mary Daly's
Beyond God the Father.

John Perlin succinctly tells the story of the planet's deforestation in
A Forest Journey.

Many books describe the beauty and natural opulence of North America prior to the arrival of civilization. One of the best, and most heartbreaking, is Farley Mowat s
Sea of Slaughter.

The exchange described by Captain John Chester is from Quinn's
The
Voyages and Colonizing Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert.

"a rich heiress ..." is from Sobel's
Wall Street.

The TertuUian quote is from "On the Apparel of Women." The whole
quotation is: "You are the devil's gateway. . . . You are the first deserter
of the divine law; you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God's image, man. On account of your desert—that is, death—even the Son of God had to die." I guess what he's saying is that things would be okay for men—who are of course the images of God—if it weren't for those damned women.

The story of Origen is not unique. Many early Christians castrated themselves, following
Matthew
19.

For explorations of the Christian hatred of the body, see Stannard, Daly,
Turner, French
(Beyond Power),
Griffin (
Woman and Nature),
or many
others. Specifically "What is seen . .." is from Origen, Selecta in Exodus xviii.17, Migne, Patrologia Graeca, volume 12, column 296. "I know nothing .. ." is from St. Augustine
Basic Writings of St. Augustine.

"They built a . . ." is from de Las Casas's
Brief Account.

"did no other . . ." is cited in Stannard.

The story of the woman who was a role model for Spokane was in the
Spokesman-Review
on April 27.1997.

“Act provocatively and ...” is from the
Spokesman-Review,
November 7, 1997.

Seeking a Third Way

"For those in . .." is from Campbells
Masks of God,
volume IV

For accounts of prisoner exchanges between the Indians and whites, see

especially Stannard and Turner.
Demonic Males
was written by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. Information on the Semai is from Dentan's
The Semai.
One of many books to read as antidotes to
Demonic Males
might be Eleanor

Burke Leacock's
Myths of Male Dominance.

Breaking Out

"The world of..." is cited in Daly,
Beyond God the Father.

Richard Dawkins' quotes are from
The Selfish Gene.

The account of the trial for animal abuse was in the
Spokesman-Review,
June 27, 1997. The verdict, and the account of the judge's tongue-lashing, was in the paper on June 28.

"I never knew ..." is from Hearne's
Journals.

There are many extraordinary books giving examples of interspecies communication. The stories I told here are a representative collage from many sources. But if you want to learn about interspecies communication, put the books away (including this one) and go ask a nonhu-man.

The best general exploration of the history of civilization's assault on wolves
is Rick Mclntyre's
War Against the Wolf

The economics textbook I reference is Froyen's
Macroeconomics.
The V symbol means "equals by definition."

"There is not ..." is from an interview of Noam Chomsky by David Barsamian.

Economics

"scarcely admit either
..."
is in Raven-Hart,
Cape of Good Hope,
citing
Ovington.

"A woman must..." is cited in Daly's
Beyond God the Father.

The story of the extermination of the great auk is given in Mowat's
Sea of Slaughter.
Here is the destruction of the last egg: "As they clambered
up they saw two Geirfugel [great auks] sitting among numberless other
sea-birds, and at once gave chase. The Geirfugel showed not the slightest
disposition to repel the invaders, but immediately ran along the high

cliff, their heads erect, their little wings extended. They uttered no cry of alarm and moved, with their short steps, about as quickly as a man could walk. Jon, with outstretched arms, drove one onto a corner, where he soon had it fast. Sigurder and Ketil pursued the second and seized it close to the edge of the rock. Ketil then returned to the sloping shelf whence the birds had started and saw an egg lying on the lava slab, which he knew to be a Geirfugel's. He took it up, and finding it was broken, dropped it again. All this took place in much less time than it took to tell." I really do hate this culture. The accounts of fecundity prior to the arrival of civilization are from Mowat's
Sea of Slaughter.

The Goal Is the Process

"It's life that..." is from Dostoyevski's
The Idiot.

Heroes

"If I were ..." is from a 1704 letter from Fletcher to the Marquise of

Montrose. U.S. Crimes Against Humanity are described in Ramsey Clark's
The Fire

This Time.

Metamorphosis

"Between living and.
...”
is from Stephen Mitchell's
The Enlightened Heart.

Insatiability

"We need to ..." is from the
Anderson Valley Advertiser,
December, 10,1997. If you want information about the fight to save Mount Graham, go to the people and organizations leading the fight. I would probably start with
the Apache Survival Coalition. If you've got Internet access, you might
look there.

Violence

"We kill when ..." is from Hesse's
Reflections.

"There are only . . ." is from an AP story in the
Spokesman-Review
on September 4, 1997.
If you crave information about the MRTA—and about various other libera
tion struggles worldwide—you could do far worse than to check out the
Arm The Spirit website. Other than that just pore over various news sources, recognizing of course the unreliability of the corporate press.

The Parable of the Box

Ruth Benedict wrote up her study for a series of lectures she gave at Bryn
Mawr College in 1941. Her notes were lost. But her assistant, Abraham
Maslow, was able to assemble fragments. These are presented in his
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature.
Erich Fromm expanded on these
for his necessary book
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness.
LaChapelle also does a wonderful job of drawing crucial conclusions from Benedict's study in her
Sacred Land, Sacred Sex.

I discovered Janus s and Bess's book,
A Sexual Profile of Men in Power,
in
J.C. Smith's
Psychoanalytic Roots of Patriarchy.

"While Mexico does . . ." is from Riordan Rhett's January 13, 1995, Mexico-Political Update.

Violence Revisited

"What I fear .. ." is from
Newsweek,
December 19, 1988.

"New York Stock . . ." and "It is probable . . ." are cited in Olday's
March to Death.

"done in such . . ." was, ironically, in
Life.
It was in the November 18, 1957, issue.

"For what the . . ." is from Dunnigan and Nofi's fascinating book,
Dirty
Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know.
They've
spent much of their lives working intimately with and for the military, yet they seem to understand how horrid it all is.

Lethality of plutonium assembled from Gordon Edwards article "Plutonium Anyone?" and a number of other easily accessible sources.

The biblical quotes in the paragraph beginning "There can be . .." are of course from
Revelation.

The story of the largest white pine in Idaho is from the
Spokesman-Review,
September 7, 1997.

The story of injecting heart rot fungus is from the
Eugene Register-Guard,
September 10, 1997.

The information about Cassini was assembled from many web sites, and with conversations with activists opposed to it. Activists all over the
world worked against Cassini. The "Stop Cassini Website" is probably
as good a place as any to start looking. For the relative lethality of plutonium-238 compared to plutonium-239, I spoke with Dr. Horst Poehler.

"I feel no ..." is from Wenkam's
The Great Pacific Ripoffi Corporate Rape in the Far East.

Coercion

"I have never ....” is from a letter from Jefferson to A. L. C. Destutt deTracy in 1811.

"Shell operations still..." from a May 12, 1994, memo obtained by the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People. It goes on to recommend that soldiers begin "wasting" Ogoni leaders who are "especially vocal individuals," and concludes by recommending pressure on oil companies for "prompt, regular" payments to support the cost of the military operation.

"to protect the ..." is from Noam Chomsky's, "Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality,"
Z Magazine.

"Civil government ..." is from Adam Smith's
Wealth of Nations,
Book Five.

"Government has no ..." is from John Locke's
Second Treatise of Govern
ment.

"The American national
..."
is from the
Anderson Valley Advertiser,
Janu
ary 20, 1999.

Honeybees

"Happiness is love ..." is from Hesse's
Reflections.

A Turning Over

"This country, with ..." is from Abraham Lincoln's first Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.

"The tumors themselves ..." is from an Associated Press report in the
Spokesman-Review,
October 24, 1997.

"melted ice caps ..." is from the
Spokesman-Review,
October 24, 1997. The editorial's title is "Chicken Littles running scared."

"The first questions..." is from Marilyn Robinson's
Mother Country.
The story about the missing "suitcase bombs" is from a
60 Minutes
broadcast on September 7, 1997.

Breast cancer statistics are from Samuel Epstein's monumental
The Politics
of Cancer Revisited.

A Life of My Own

Nothing to cite.

Interconnection

"Our goal should ..." is cited in LaChapelle's
Sacred Land, Sacred Sex.

"On the terms..." is from Lewis Mumford's
The Pentagon of Power.
This
is the second and final volume of his
Myth of the Machine,
an explora
tion that cannot be too-highly recommended.