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Grenville Dodge: This has been the treatment of the Indians from the Atlantic to the Pacific, until at the present time there is not a…

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This has been the treatment of the Indians from the Atlantic to the Pacific, until at the present time there is not a wild Indian living in the entire country; yet I cannot remember that this press has ever been aroused; it was too near home.
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Grenville Dodge
Republican · Iowa

Editor's note · Context

Dodge criticizes the lack of media attention to the treatment of Native Americans throughout U.S. history.

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