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Manifest Destiny1 quote
Brothers, I have listened to a great many talks from our great father. But they always began and ended in this: "Get a little further; you are too near me." — Speckled Snake · 1829
US and Native American relations1 quote
When the white man had warmed himself before the Indians' fire and filled himself with their hominy, he became very large. With a step he bestrode the mountains, and his feet covered the plains and the valleys. His hands grasped the eastern and the western sea, and his head rested on the moon. — Speckled Snake · 1829