When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.' (Vine Deloria Jr.)

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'

Vine Deloria Jr.

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