American Indians

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“As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“The ferryman had told us that all the best Indians were gone except Polis, who was one of the aristocracy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)