we whites were not your first enemies. why don't you demand back the land in minnesota where the chippewa and others forced you from years before? no matter what your legends say, you didn't sprout from the plains like the spring grasses. and you didn't coalesce out of the ether. you came out of the minnesota woodlands armed to the teeth and set upon your fellow man. you massacred the kiowa, the omaha, the ponca, the oto and the pawnee without mercy. and yet you claim the black hills as a private preserve bequeathed to you by the great spirit. the proposition that you were a peaceable people before the appearance of the white man is the most fanciful legend of all. you were killing each other for hundreds of moons before the first white stepped foot on this continent. you conquered those tribes, lusting for their game and their lands, just as we have now conquered you for no less noble a cause.
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