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The Indian problem is not chiefly how to teach the Indian to be less savage in his treatment of the Saxon, but the Saxon to be less savage in his treatment of the Indian.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “The Indian problem is not chiefly how to teach the Indian to be less savage in his treatment of the Saxon, but the Saxon…”
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Hoar argues that the focus should be on the treatment of Native Americans by the dominant race rather than the other way around.
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