Harry Truman: “They named all the minority groups but they didn't say a word about…”

On the recordFebruary 20, 1952

They named all the minority groups but they didn't say a word about the only 100 percent Americans in the country, and that is the American Indians.

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Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks to a Group from the Navajo Tribal Council.

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