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"ref": "1994, Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace, HarperCollinsPublishers, page 71",
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"ref": "2004, Johnny D. Boggs, Spark on the Prairie, Thorndike Press, page 293",
"text": "\"I know he's a damned Kiowa, mister, and that's all I have to know about that prairie nigger.\"",
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"ref": "2011, James Robb, Corona Rapture, iUniverse, page 53",
"text": "[…] I don't have to listen to some prairie nigger whine about ethics. Go drink it out on a reservation,\" Amanda said, breaking for the stairs.\n\"I'm Sicilian,\" Luca corrected.\n\"I don't care what tribe you're from!\" […]",
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