Mission Indian Population

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    It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
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    It will soon be forgotten, in these days of stoves, that we used to roast potatoes in the ashes, after the Indian fashion.
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    O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)