Excerpt from The Legal Status of the American Indians: With Special Reference to the Tenure of Indian Lands One fine morning, six years ago last April, a gentleman from New York and I were promenad-fi ing in Washington City' along that magnificent boulevard, Pennsylvania Avenue, that leads from the Capitol Building to the White House. This gentleman was a prominent and active member of a society known as the Indian Rights Association - a voluntary society of benevolent citizens from all over the Union, who believe that our ...
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Excerpt from The Legal Status of the American Indians: With Special Reference to the Tenure of Indian Lands One fine morning, six years ago last April, a gentleman from New York and I were promenad-fi ing in Washington City' along that magnificent boulevard, Pennsylvania Avenue, that leads from the Capitol Building to the White House. This gentleman was a prominent and active member of a society known as the Indian Rights Association - a voluntary society of benevolent citizens from all over the Union, who believe that our people have, collectively and individually, mistreated the Indian and often taken advantage of his inexperi ence in business matters to defraud him out of his lands and his money. This society is very active inzpromotingthe idea that the Indian needs the special protection of the law against the superior intelligence and greed of the white man; and they have aroused public sentiment by' a'n'aotive propa ganda and strongly influenced the legislation of the Congress of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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