Indian Language

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    The white man’s mullein soon reigned in Indian corn-fields, and sweet-scented English grasses clothed the new soil. Where, then, could the red man set his foot?
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    When a language creates—as it does—a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
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