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Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

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“For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.”

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“Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.”

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“Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.”

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“It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.”

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“If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.”

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“The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.”

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“Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.”

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“The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.”

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“If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.”

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“Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.”

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