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"Emancipation. But they were not enslaved. Freed from being Indians was the idea. Emancipated from their land. Freed from the treaties that Thomas's father and grandfather had signed and that were promised to last forever. So, as usual by getting rid of us, the Indian problem would be solved.
Overnight the tribal chairman job had turned into a struggle to remain a problem. To not be solved."

I am loving Strout's writing so much that I am rationing myself to 50 pages a day to make this book last longer. This is harder to do than it sounds.