Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the oppor…

Edward Hoagland
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Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? ✨ Edward Hoagland (2014). On Nature: Selected Essays, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield
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