A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes |
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... agency , and expect him to support himself and family on $ 1500 a year . The Indian Bureau represents a system which is a blunder and a crime . The Indian is the only human being within our territory who has no individual right in the ...
... agency , and expect him to support himself and family on $ 1500 a year . The Indian Bureau represents a system which is a blunder and a crime . The Indian is the only human being within our territory who has no individual right in the ...
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... agency . Around this agency and along the border were gathered influences to degrade the savage , and sink him to a depth his fathers had never known . It has only needed a real or a fancied wrong to have this pauperized savagery break ...
... agency . Around this agency and along the border were gathered influences to degrade the savage , and sink him to a depth his fathers had never known . It has only needed a real or a fancied wrong to have this pauperized savagery break ...
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... agencies of civiliza- tion ready to our hand are neither wanting nor weak . The great difficulty with the Indian problem is not with the Indian , but with the Government and people of the United States . Instead of a liberal and far ...
... agencies of civiliza- tion ready to our hand are neither wanting nor weak . The great difficulty with the Indian problem is not with the Indian , but with the Government and people of the United States . Instead of a liberal and far ...
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... agency of incalculable importance . When the Indian , through wise and Christian treatment , be- comes invested with all the rights and duties of citizenship , his special tribal relations will become extinct . This will not be easily ...
... agency of incalculable importance . When the Indian , through wise and Christian treatment , be- comes invested with all the rights and duties of citizenship , his special tribal relations will become extinct . This will not be easily ...
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... Agency ; might be pledged to that school for ten years to come , and that they might therefor be guaran- teed the education and subsistence of Delaware children , not exceeding fifty at any one time . It came out , in course of this ...
... Agency ; might be pledged to that school for ten years to come , and that they might therefor be guaran- teed the education and subsistence of Delaware children , not exceeding fifty at any one time . It came out , in course of this ...
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