"I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one."
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in Z Magazine, vol. 8 (1995), p. 32
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Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American writer and activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder prior to being fired for academic misconduct.{{Cite book | title = Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the Un
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