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The choices now are always very few nor as great as retrospect demands; just say that conquest does not claim the land - a possibility no conqueror ever knew.
Then the choice was trading pans and pots and rifles to replace the arrow and the bow and, bye the bye, eliminate the buffalo and end the natives’ independent lot.
And schools for skills and learning English speech may now seem less than generous and wise but then they were a hopeful enterprise a choice, a do-able, a thing to teach.
Is now assimilation, again the norm the only shelter from the human storm?
Midi: "People, We are here" by Black Lodge Singers of White Swan, Washington
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