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Haunted house

People often say they wouldn’t want to live

in a house where someone had been murdered.

It would spook them too much.

Maybe one reason our nation seems so crazy

is that there’s hardly a square mile

that wasn’t once the home of a Native,

an individual or a community,

that was killed. Like right where you are.

Maybe our problem is that we live

in a haunted house, brooded over

by our murderous ancestors, haunted

by our murdered neighbors.

We probably don’t need to move.

But we do need to confront our own spirits,

the real skeletons in our closets.

We need to exorcise our…

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