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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mosier" data-source="post: 6626036" data-attributes="member: 6776381">Mr. President, In the beginning, we were many and you were few. We welcomed you as brothers. With one hand you greeted us warmly, even as the other drove a dagger into our back. For five centuries you bled us like cattle, but could not find it within yourselves to deliver the final killing blow. Why is that, I wonder? Can it be that some part of you yet resists the urge to kill, consume, and dominate?We thought the spirits had abandoned us, but we were wrong. They were never our allies, only fading memories that walked among us. No, the spirits are not our ancestors, our teachers, our guardians.They are our weapons. Your guns fail against us. We marched in defiance against you, and you were powerless to stop us. We are yet few, but even the smallest pack of coyotes has nothing to fear from a hundred million rabbits. You have seen our shield; do not force our spear. We will agree to give you more than you ever offered us; your lives, your freedom, and your way of life. In exchange, you will open the remaining internment camps, and you will sit in good faith negotiations with our elders, where the terms of a sovereign Native American Nation will be drawn. You will lose much of your land in these negotiations, but the alternative is catastrophe for the United States of America. I have looked into the fire, and my heart weeps with the knowledge that you will reject these terms. When we finally come before the Maker and sit in his judgment, I will be able to say with clear conscience that there was no other way...-Daniel Coleman, Howling Coyote</blockquote>

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