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  • ... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The war in the Northwest (cont'd). The Indian wars, 1784-1787. St. Clair and Wayne”
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