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"I was thinking about writing Steven Spielberg and asking him, 'How about an Indian Shoah?'" says Kosnoff. (Shortly after he made Schindler's List, Spielberg established the Shoah Foundation to record testimonies by Holocaust survivors.)

In the meantime, Kosnoff is already talking about what he calls "the next shoe to drop"—litigation over abuse that happened at the many Indian boarding schools across the country run by the federal government.

Steven Miller

Steven Miller

Kosnoff: "a cash-and-carry kind of guy."

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At this point, the details of any such lawsuit are sketchy, but he seems to think he would have no problem finding people wanting to press a claim.

He says, "I always start with the axiom: The victims are out there."

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