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for the rest of that century.
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That victory for the Indians, of course,
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would be a pyrrhic victory in their struggle
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to hold onto land, culture, place.
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What was also occurring here, by 1876,
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of course, the subtext of this great national celebration,
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if not its central theme,
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was the sectional North/South reunion,
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the great reconciliation from the Civil War.
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Now one might say that's inevitable,
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it had to happen.
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I said this at the beginning of our whole unit on Reconstruction,