A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes |
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... ceded territory , as the law which regulated the relations with all the Indians who were parties to them , and were binding on the United States by the obligation they had assumed by the Louisiana treaty as a supreme law of the land ...
... ceded territory , as the law which regulated the relations with all the Indians who were parties to them , and were binding on the United States by the obligation they had assumed by the Louisiana treaty as a supreme law of the land ...
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... ceded to the United States by obtaining regular conveyances for the same , and for extending a purchase beyond the limits hitherto fixed by treaty . " Here is one of the earliest records of the principle and method on which the United ...
... ceded to the United States by obtaining regular conveyances for the same , and for extending a purchase beyond the limits hitherto fixed by treaty . " Here is one of the earliest records of the principle and method on which the United ...
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... ceded by former treaties . " It was in this same year , also , that General Putnam said to them , in a speech at Post Vincennes : " The United States don't mean to wrong you out of your lands . They don't want to take away your lands by ...
... ceded by former treaties . " It was in this same year , also , that General Putnam said to them , in a speech at Post Vincennes : " The United States don't mean to wrong you out of your lands . They don't want to take away your lands by ...
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... ceded to the United States ; and , in consideration of these " cessions and relinquishments , and to manifest the liberality of the United States as the great means of rendering this peace strong and perpetual , " the United States ...
... ceded to the United States ; and , in consideration of these " cessions and relinquishments , and to manifest the liberality of the United States as the great means of rendering this peace strong and perpetual , " the United States ...
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... ceded to the United States , without hinderance or molestation , so long as they demean themselves peaceably . " The United States agreed to pay to the Indians twenty thousand dollars ' worth of goods at once ; and THE DELAWARES . 45.
... ceded to the United States , without hinderance or molestation , so long as they demean themselves peaceably . " The United States agreed to pay to the Indians twenty thousand dollars ' worth of goods at once ; and THE DELAWARES . 45.
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