A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes |
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... first be kindled , and can then only be kept alive by a power genuinely Christian . But it is idle to attempt to carry Christian influences to any one unless we are Christian . The first step , therefore , toward the de- sired ...
... first be kindled , and can then only be kept alive by a power genuinely Christian . But it is idle to attempt to carry Christian influences to any one unless we are Christian . The first step , therefore , toward the de- sired ...
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... first discoverer of the coast of the particular region claimed ; and this was a restriction which those Eu- ropean potentates imposed on themselves as well as on the Indians . The very term ' nation , ' so generally applied to them ...
... first discoverer of the coast of the particular region claimed ; and this was a restriction which those Eu- ropean potentates imposed on themselves as well as on the Indians . The very term ' nation , ' so generally applied to them ...
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... first ought to be considered as predominant , since it as well as the ' jus civile ' was a positive law , the origin and development of which must be sought for in history . " Nations being simply , as Vattel defines them , " societies ...
... first ought to be considered as predominant , since it as well as the ' jus civile ' was a positive law , the origin and development of which must be sought for in history . " Nations being simply , as Vattel defines them , " societies ...
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... first place , absurd to make treaties with them at all , to consider them in any sense as treaty - making powers or na- tions . The logic of this assertion , made as a justification for the breaking of several hundred treaties ...
... first place , absurd to make treaties with them at all , to consider them in any sense as treaty - making powers or na- tions . The logic of this assertion , made as a justification for the breaking of several hundred treaties ...
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... first to cut short our nation's record of cruelties and perjuries ! the first to attempt to re- deem the name of the United States from the stain of a cen- tury of dishonor ! CHAPTER II . THE DELAWARES . WHEN Hendrik Hudson anchored ...
... first to cut short our nation's record of cruelties and perjuries ! the first to attempt to re- deem the name of the United States from the stain of a cen- tury of dishonor ! CHAPTER II . THE DELAWARES . WHEN Hendrik Hudson anchored ...
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