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Palin Book Attributes Leftist Native-American's Quote to UCLA's John Wooden

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Chapter 3 of Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life," begins with a quote that the book attributes to legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden:

"Our land is everything to us. . . . I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it -- with their lives."

But as The Huffington Post's Geoffrey Dunn reports, the quote is actually from John Wooden Legs, a Native American activist. The words come from the book "We Are the People: Voices From the Other Side of American History," an anthology of left-wing essays. The full quote reveals that the Cheyenne chief was referring to his tribe's defeat of Gen. George Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn:

"Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it -- with their life. My people and the Sioux defeated General Custer at the Little Bighorn."

Gawker reports that the quote is misattributed to John Wooden on a popular quotations site, where Palin or her ghost writer might have found it.

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parodoxing

11:52AM Dec 1st 2009

PALINS BOOK IS A GREAT READ,I RECOMEND IT TO ALL.

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jpgoodrow

1:20PM Dec 1st 2009

I agree. When the dimwitted koolaid clowns put down that koolaid and set aside their bizarre psychotic media-generated sheep hatred... it is indeed a very good book.

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mriffler

8:54PM Dec 1st 2009

Everybody WHO TYPES IN CAPS will enjoy it. Ditto anybody who can prove all the following in less than a dozen words: can't compose a sentence, can't use the possessive; and can't spell or--far worse--use a spell-checker. And while we're at it? In the photo montage produced for the election, "Pioneer Palin," holds her fishing rod upside down, proving that even when it comes "backwoods" she's backwards. As to the moose Madame Palin shot...I'm betting it left a suicide note.

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miserblof

9:24PM Dec 1st 2009

If there are pictures in it to color, I'm sure the ex-idiot boy emperor will get one.

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spacificgrove

9:58PM Dec 1st 2009

Facts notwithstanding, right cons?........

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Joshua

10:00PM Dec 1st 2009

You're a moron.

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lking

10:28PM Dec 1st 2009

Even a first grade teacher knows it's Palin's book and recommend---Sarah Palin appeals to the ignorant and uneducated among us.

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ds9dad

10:41PM Dec 1st 2009

Your spelling and punctuation make me hesitant to believe your blurb has any validity

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walily

11:23PM Dec 1st 2009

....if you like fiction. LOL

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sparda

11:25PM Dec 1st 2009

of course you would, half of the book is moose recipes

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Sherril

12:08AM Dec 2nd 2009

she is such a loser and i cant stand her either..

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William Weiswasser

12:09AM Dec 2nd 2009

To "Paradoxing":

I recomMend that you learn how to spell basic words in English!

No wonder that you think positively of Palin........

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sherry4sue

12:23AM Dec 2nd 2009

Sarah Palin is an idiot

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broll099

3:11AM Dec 2nd 2009

please tell me you are not one of the "citizens" of this country that we are just giving our money to, so that you can sit in front of the computer, making your family proud as you spend your daily-life...BLOGGING... if this is what you do during your free time, then I apologize and I stand corrected: Your daily-life consists of...reading Sarah Palin's new book: a book about someone else's life--how big of a waste can you and so many other lowlifes (that I still can't believe call themselves Americans) look in the mirror and live with yourself. Or did the rear-view mirrors fall off of all your mobile-homes so that has become just one less activity in your time-consuming day? Get a life and get a job.

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hairhofla

11:52AM Dec 1st 2009

Leave it To Palin And her staff to muck up the facts.....Are they UNABLE to get ANYTHING correct????

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doug

1:16PM Dec 1st 2009

We musn'tbe too hard on Sarah; after all, it's not as if she actually WROTE the book.

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time2bsmart

1:52PM Dec 1st 2009

If 11 people fact checking the book could only come up with this...what does that say about the book? I'm sure fact checkers could come up with some kind of mistake in most books...the jury is still out on Sarah Palin as far as I'm concerned...although she does hit a chord with those of us who are "common sense" americans. I like her approach to budgeting...and learned a few things about ethic violations filings that I didn't know prior to reading her book. I did fact check that part of the book....and I find it is par for the course for the media to ignore that. Wouldn't want to back her up now, would we?

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sherry4sue

10:06PM Dec 1st 2009

NOPE, they will never get it right cause they have NO BRAINS

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bbutler102000

12:04PM Dec 1st 2009

One would think with so many Native Americans in her own state to quote from Ms. P could have "attributed" a quote just as pithy, more politically correct, and more applicable to her situation. Oh wait, no ... on second thought...the Native Americans did beat Custer right? I forget that the winners get to write history they way they remember it. She being a whiner and not a winner, wrong and not right, can't even write "her"story in a memorable manner. More Journalism teachers are having a heyheyhey day with this. I worked for a radio station (owned by a former Governor of my state) back in the late 60's. He made us check the ticker tape news from THREE SOURCES before it was EVER quoted on the air. MMMM, ethics? or just getting the facts straight? guess that doesn't apply when you're rogueishly rrrrrrong!!! IMHO

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talia

10:16PM Dec 1st 2009

Fact check this...they are not called Native Americans in Alaska. They are Alaskan Natives.

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