“What about the rest of the North?” asked McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation, back in the 1970s while considering yet one more grant to help the troubled Native American tribes of Alaska.
The initial reaction of a young staffer asked to pursue the question was the boss was making some strange reference to the Civil War.
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