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When young men are willing to join gangs and brutalize their communities for a small fee, and women are raped on the way to work, and, when they report this, the perpetrators bribe their way out of jail, and when young girls have to sell their bodies to buy sanitary towels, you know the society is broken.

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The following is a time line of treaties made, treaties broken and massacres disguised as battles.

As removed as we, the dominant society, may feel from a massacre in 1890, or a series of broken treaties 150 years ago, I still have to ask you the question: How should you feel about the statistics of today?

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So this is a 12-bar blues, and I've broken it down into four-bar groups, so you would know how you would trade.

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