To dissociate the parties created by the chiefs of the global territorial units is also to suppress, to make disappear, centers of resistance against us. To abolish the tyranny of one ethnic group over other ethnic groups is better yet to destroy the hostility of the ancient aristocracy, and attract to ourselves the friendship of those collectivities which, thanks to us, ac- quire an independent individuality.

Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The …, loc. 397