Short Story 32: Three Million Square Miles

Gwern Branwen · 07 Jun 2012, 00:51 · from 2012-June.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:51:00 -0400
Subject: (urth) Short Story 32: Three Million Square Miles
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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I read that one years ago - Indian land?? I feel like it might have been a social commentary in some ways on the land that the Indians were given - just kept shrinking and shrinking and shrinking.

Perfectly possible: one of Lafferty's semi-historical novels was about
some noble Indians in the early Western period, _Okla Hannali_. And
there's some fairly overt commentary in the story itself about the
Indians being screwed over.

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