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The new policy was tantamount to apartheid, to be sure. But if it was predicated on the prevailing racism of the time, it was also fueled by an emerging humanitarian concern that whole tribes were truly on the brink of expiration—becoming, in Carleton’s alarming phrase, Children of the Mist.
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Hampton Sides (Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West)