"In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson delivered a Confidential Message to Congress on Indian Policy explaining a strategy to dispossess Indian Tribes of their territories in part by assimilation," the report said.
"To promote this disposition to exchange lands which they have to spare & we want, for necessaries, which we have to spare & they want, we shall push our trading houses, and be glad to see the good & influential 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 a cession of lands,
"The extensive forests necessary in the hunting life, will then become useless, and they will see advantage in exchanging them for the means of improving their farms, and of increasing their domestic comforts,
"I trust and believe we are acting for their greatest good,"
The annoying part of this letter is ---he thought to himself and his conscious that he is acting in the Indian best or good or interest. Is that Cognitive dissonance?
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"To promote this disposition to exchange lands which they have to spare & we want, for necessaries, which we have to spare & they want, we shall push our trading houses, and be glad to see the good & influential 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 a cession of lands,
"The extensive forests necessary in the hunting life, will then become useless, and they will see advantage in exchanging them for the means of improving their farms, and of increasing their domestic comforts,
"I trust and believe we are acting for their greatest good,"
The annoying part of this letter is ---he thought to himself and his conscious that he is acting in the Indian best or good or interest. Is that Cognitive dissonance?
Thomas Jefferson once secretly wrote to Congress that the US would try to drive Native Americans into debt in order to take their land
The note to lawmakers in 1803 was referenced in a report on US Indian Schools, where Native American children were forcibly assimilated and abused.
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