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From There There, by Tommy Orange

THE QUOTE

"The quote is important to Dene. This there there. He hadn't read Gertrude Stein beyond the quote. But for Native people in this country, all over the Americas, its been developed over, buried ancestral land, glass and concrete and wire and steel, unreturnable covered memory. There is no there there."

From Dene Oxendene

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From The Story of America: Essays on Origins, by Jill Lepore

NOT

"Not long before he died, in 1868, Kit Carson was shown a dime novel cover featuring a picture of a dashing young Kit 'slaying seven Indians wih one hand, while he clasped a fainting maiden with the other.' As the story goes, the old man stared at it for a while, fiddled with his spectacles a bit, and declared, 'That there may have happened, but I ain't got no recollection of it.'"

From Chapter 13, Pride of the Prairie

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From Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann

ONE

"There was one question that the judge and the prosecutors and the defense never asked the jurors but that was central to the proceedings: Would a jury of twelve white men ever punish another white man for killing an American Indian?"

From Chapter 20, So Help You God!

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From Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann

ONE

"There was one question that the judge and prosecutors and the defense never asked the jurors but that was central to the proceedings: Would the jury of twelve white men ever punish another white man for killing an American Indian?"

From Chapter 20, So help you God!

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From Lincoln's Bishop: A President, A Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors, Gustav Niebuhr

NEITHER

"Whipple would be neither the first nor the last American to come up against the rhetoric of men and women who -- despite being firmly in the majority -- regard themselves as victims and respond with fear and a clamor for the harshest penalties against their opponents."

From Chapter Five, A "War of Extermination"