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This episode is hosted by Bill Thomas, the Director of Radio at Prairie Public Broadcasting. The segment was taped lived in front of an audience at the Fargo Theatre in Fargo, ND.

"These people deserve our commiseration. They only wanted to be left alone. They didn't invite Columbus or Henry Hudson or any of the Europeans to come and discover America."

— Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Clay S. Jenkinson

"The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and, in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity, shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them."

— the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

"The Indians are acknowledged to have an unquestionable, and heretofore an unquestioned right to the lands they occupy; until that right shall be extinguished by a voluntary cession to our government. It may well be doubted whether those tribes which reside within the acknowledged boundaries of the United States can with strict accuracy be denominated foreign nations. They may more correctly perhaps be denominated domestic dependent nations. They occupy a territory to which we assert a title independent of their will, which must take effect in point of possession when their right of possession ceases— meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relations to the United States resemble that of a ward to his guardian. They look to our government for protection; rely upon its kindness and its power; appeal to it for relief to their wants; and address the President as their great father."

— Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Supreme Court of the United States, 1831