Those There Injuins

Howdy there folks. Hope ya'll had a good cow lickin' time this week like I have. Well time to get down to business as the cow prodders over west say. This here morning I looked out my window and the sight I saw made me do a double take. There in front of my humble estate I saw at least 300 injuins walking. I ran outside because I tell you, those injuins did NOT look happy. They didn't have no shoes and barely any clothes. There were some mean looking soldiers walking by them, but they were not much help. If an injuin fell down, those darn soldiers did nothin, I say nothin, to help. I asked a solidi er what was happening, and he said, "Well sir, this is the product of the Indian Removal Act. These Native Americans are being removed from Georgia to Oklahoma." The solidi er then advised me, not at all kindly, to watch where I wear my revolver. EXCUSE ME!

Well I must say folks, I reckon that I was outraged by that there occurrence. I felt embarrassed to be an American. When someone asks me "What does it mean to be a nation" I would never, ya'll hear, never imagine a nation treating anyone as bad as those injuins were being treated. Being a nation means accepting everyone for who they are, and working out the problems that arise due to that there diversity. A nation's responsibility is to uphold the rights of all the people in that nation, and that sure does include injuins, and women, and kids, and gunslingers like me. I dare say that I would put my black eyed susan in the face of the man who thought up this TERRIBLE! idea of removing those darn injuins. I say, I am so upset I don't know if I can go cut any timber now... I am just so upset.

Essential Question: "What does it mean to be a nation?"