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ZACHARY ALDRIDGE

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Article Complicit In Suffering Of Native Americans

from ZACHARY ALDRIDGE Article Complicit In Suffering Of Native People To the Editor: In the May 23-24 editions of your newspapers, Jim Kevlin wrote that “paddlers in the 59th annual General Clinton Regatta can compete with a clear conscience” because the native inhabitants of a single village, Onaquaga, had deserted it. As he goes on to explain, they had fled a different genocidal campaign the year before Clinton’s, led by Lt. Col. William Butler. The bylines read “Clinton Didn’t Destroy…