The impairment of executive functions is one of the more important and central deficits that is associated with schizophrenia (Carter et al., 2011; Goldman-Rakic, 1994; Kerns, Nuechterlein, Braver, & Barch, 2008; Liddle & Morris, 1991; Reeder, Newton, Frangou, & Wykes, 2004), occurring not only in the chronic stage of the disease, but also in the first episode (Chan, Chen, & Law, 2006), in the
prodromic stage (Cornblatt, Lenzenweger, Dworkin, & Erlenmeyer-Kimling, 1992; Davidson et al., 1999), and in direct descendants (Snitz, Macdonald, & Carter, 2006; Szoke et al., 2005).
With his recognizable rhetorical amplitude and speed, Montezuma declares that preceding this "bad" prognosis, there were ample "visible" "foreboding
prodromic signs" all predicting that the Indians' property would be "taken from them," their money in the "United States Treasury" would be "disposed of" and that they would "have no rights, no place to lay their heads" (31).