"world history as presently conceived in the Christian nations is the story of the West's conquest of the remainder of the world and the subsequent rise to technological sophistication. Because we cannot understand humankind from a more profound point of view, we have in recent years fallen into a number of easily avoid­ able difficulties." (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))