The biggest untold story in American history is what happened to the Native Americans east of the Mississippi River. - James Meredith

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The biggest untold story in American history is what happened to the Native Americans east of the Mississippi River.

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About James Meredith

James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government (an event that was a flashpoint in the Civil rights movement).

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Alternative Names: James Howard Meredith James H. Meredith

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Western civilization has worked like this: They marched in armor and took over. Almost all of the wealth comes from developing land. England never paid a dime for a single acre. But now there's no more land to take. They've tried in space for fifty years and they haven't found no place out there. So we're gonna have to learn to do what the Native Americans knew how to do: live the good life on the land that's there.

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