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as long as grass grows and water runs. A promise, meaning “forever,” often made to Indian tribes in the American West re- garding their rights to their lands and their freedom. But as a writer put it in Colliers Magazine (11/30/07): “The white invad- ers [settlers] pleaded for Statehood, and Statehood forever laid aside the promise to the red man that he should have freedom ‘as long as grass grows and water runs.’ ” |