• If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

    Janet Campbell Hale: If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.
    Janet Campbell Hale (1987). “The Jailing of Cecelia Capture”, p.58, UNM Press