And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>From: Mark A Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Fw: Thomas Jefferson & the "Indians": A Founding Liar
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Greetings:
>
>I pulled this post from a newsgroup that I monitor. The following has
>been taken from a letter containing private instructions Jefferson issued
>for dealing with Native Americans in the Northwest Territory. I don't
>know that I would call Jefferson a liar because I can't recall Jefferson
>ever promising good will to Native Americans, but his instructions do
>violate the intent of the Northwest Ordinance.
>
>Mark Roberts ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>TAMHA Listowner
>US History Teacher
>Kingwood Middle School
>Kingwood, TX
>
>--------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: "James Michael Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:44:33 -0600 (CST)
>Subject: Thomas Jefferson & the "Indians": A Founding Liar
>
>"The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards Indians; their
>land
>and property shall never be taken from them without their consent."
>(Northwest Ordinance, 1787, Ratified by Congress 1789)
>
>"...but this letter being unofficial and private, I may with safety
>give you a more extensive view of our policy respecting the Indians,
>that you may better comprehend the parts dealt to to you in detail
>through the official channel, and observing the system of which they
>make a part, conduct yourself in unison with it in cases where you are
>obliged to act without instruction...When they withdraw themselves to
>the culture of a small piece of land, they will perceive how useless to
>them are their extensive forests, and will be willing to pare them off
>from time to time in exchange for necessaries for their farms and
>families. To promote this disposition to exchange lands, which they
>have to spare and we want, for necessaries which we have to spare and
>they want,we shall push our trading houses, and be glad to see the good
>and influencial individuals among them run in debt, because we observe
>that
>when these debts get beyond what the individuals can pay, they become
>willing to lop them off by cession of lands...In this way our
>settlements will gradually circumscribe and approach the Indians, and
>they will in time either incorporate with us as citizens of the United
>States, or remove beyond the Mississippi. The former is certainly the
>termination of their history most happy for themselves; but, in the
>whole course of this, it is essential to cultivate their love. As to
>their fear, we presume that our strength and their weakness is now so
>visible that they must see we have only to shut our hand to crush
>them..." (Classified Letter of President Thomas Jefferson
>("libertarian"--for propertied white people) to William Henry Harrison,
>Feb. 27, 1803)
>
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