Reservation Poverty - Poverty Rates On The Ten Largest Reservations

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“Poor John Field!—I trust he does not read this, unless he will improve by it,—thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country.... With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam’s grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.”
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Took the largest part of me:
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This is lordly man’s down-lying,
This his slow but sure reclining,
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“Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word “human.””
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