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The second coming of the red-man is closer than any may think ...
Kill Liberals-- The TN Unitarian Church Murderer's Motive (with poll) 2008
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This country is a good and pleasant country, and those who are coming to live here are sprung from a noble race, and if you, my friends, all prove as good and true as this departed red-man, you will have no cause to complain at the pale faces settling around you.
Young Lion of the Woods A Story of Early Colonial Days Thomas Barlow Smith
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In that day, the fierce red-man chief scoured the broad prairies, a petty king in his tribe, a ruler of his wild domain.
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters
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With yelps of gladness and appreciation, the pup went awkwardly knocking through the brush, and presently halted -- bracing abruptly with his clumsy paws -- amazed and confounded by the sight of a frightened little red-man, sitting with his rabbits in the sand.
Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels
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The memory of the red-man of the forest has preserved but one instance when their privacy was violated, since it was known through the tribes that they wished for no intercourse with mortals.
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The red-man and the white man were next door neighbors.
Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler
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Citizenship was given with the ownership of the land, in the hope that a sort of assimilation might gradually take place, and earnest attempts were made to provide education for the red-man.
The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley
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By the generosity of the late Mrs. Henry Codman Potter, this hunter's domain has been transformed into beautiful “Cooper Grounds”; and here the red-man of bronze keeps ward and watch over memories that enshrine the genius of a noble soul whose records of this vanishing race are for all time.
James Fenimore Cooper Phillips, Mary E 1912
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Brandt's plan, presumably somewhat changed by the advent of the red-man, was to steal horses, abduct a girl in broad daylight, and before tomorrow's sunset escape to join the ruffian Legget.
The Last Trail Zane Grey 1905
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This fact alone is enough to guarantee the industrial future of the red-man when the hunter life is no longer possible.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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