Re Ed T's Shaw quote 3 posts back. That is indeed how it appears in several online Shaw quotation sites. But I suspected some PC interference at some stage: did Shaw really write "Native American"? Somehow I didn't think so -- the usage was surely not current in his lifetime.

So, investigating further, I found in 'Google Answers'

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=321024

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From "Experiencing the Soul: Before Birth, During Life, After Death,"
by Eliot Rosen and Ellen Burstyn (1997):

"A Native American Elder once described his own inner struggles in
this manner: 'Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean
and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all
the time.' When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and
replied, 'The one I feed the most."
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So the error, it appears, was misattribution of the quote to Shaw at some stage, when it actually derives from a work by Rosen & Burstyn written 47 years after Shaw's death. Just shows that you can't always trust the Internet -- one site perpetuates an error from another site.... to ∞

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