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Share!     1. Charles Martel says      Danny, everything you say
makes sense. If I were an American Indian, I would be enraged at
what the federal government and my own people have done to
themselves. (Notice I used the word “enrage,” as opposed to
“outrage,” which I no longer use because the left has turned it
into a knee-jerk word for being very, very, very upset.)
That said, your commentary reminded me of a now almost-forgotten
story from the 1990s. A couple of ecologists from upstate New
York began traveling through the Great Plains quietly
introducing the idea of setting aside tens of thousands of
square miles to be returned to their original native prairie-
grass state. Their reasoning was based on an astounding,
demographic fact: The 900,000 square miles that make up the
American Great Plains are less populated now than they were in
1900. The terrain, which fooled settlers with an
uncharacteristic run of rainy years, is a dry, desolate