White Pass Route

Famous quotes containing the words white, pass and/or route:

“The white dominant culture seemed to think that once the Indians were off the reservations, they’d eventually become like everybody else. But they aren’t like everybody else. When the Indianness is drummed out of them, they are turned into hopeless drunks on skid row.”
—Elizabeth Morris (b. c. 1933)

“You are even a world,
a planet,
and pass from history
and the day’s event.
to myth and phantasy,”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.”
—Bernice Weissbourd (20th century)