{"id":22783,"date":"2022-06-17T22:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T05:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=22783"},"modified":"2022-06-17T22:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T05:19:23","slug":"john-fire-lame-deer-on-getting-civilized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/06\/17\/john-fire-lame-deer-on-getting-civilized\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN FIRE LAME DEER ON GETTING CIVILIZED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/JohnFireLameDeer.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42246\"\/><figcaption>John Fire Lame Deer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBefore our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can\u2019t have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were to uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man\u2019s worth couldn\u2019t be measured by it. We had no written law, no attorneys or politicians, therefore we couldn\u2019t cheat. We really were in a bad way before the white men came, and I don\u2019t know how we managed to get along without these basic things which, we are told, are absolutely necessary to make a civilized society.\u201d<br>\u2015&nbsp;<strong>John Lame Deer,&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/219246\">Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBefore our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can\u2019t have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket,&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/06\/17\/john-fire-lame-deer-on-getting-civilized\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22784,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783\/revisions\/22784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}