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> [It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/it-s-a-weird-thing-reservations-were-meant-to-be-prisons-you-know/)

[Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/)

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