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that are not for sale,
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that there are some things
that belong to all of us...

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and to future generations,
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then maybe other people will hear us
and begin to say it too.

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And someday there'll be enough of us,
and we'll believe that it can be done,

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that we can change the world.
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So why don't we start
in our own country?

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In Canada.
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Here. Tonight.
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Bravo!
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Bravo!
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Bravo!
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Bravo!
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He never spoke in public again.
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That night,
when we watched Archie strip away...

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all pretense of being an Indian,
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I knew that what he was saying
was far more important...

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than who he really was.
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Afterwards, he slipped
silently into the night...

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and went back to his remote cabin
on Lake Ajawaan.

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He died there,
suddenly, of pneumonia...

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two years later, in April, 1938.
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In recognition of what Archie
was trying to achieve,

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the North Bay Nugget agreed
to hold my story while he lived.

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They ran it the day after he died,
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and it made front page
all over the world.

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Pony never stopped campaigning
against trapping...

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and, slowly, because of
what she and Archie did,

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there were laws passed
to protect the beaver,

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and they returned to the lakes
and streams of Canada.


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