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             The sources of evidence used by the author in his novel are taken from
             Eleanor Leacock and other Marxist oriented anthropologists in identifying
             ways in which the exemption proved the rule. Leacock pointed out that the
             Northwest Indian tribes were already at the inception phase of a sort of
             tributary class society when Columbus discovered the New World. Instead of
             agriculture, fishing provided the excessive products for the maintenance of
             a chiefly caste that might have matured into true class during the era of
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