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The chief offence of the whites was that they trespassed upon uninhabited lands, which they forthwith proceeded to cultivate, instead of merely roaming over them to hunt the game and butcher one another.
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Roosevelt critiques the actions of white settlers who encroached on Native lands, highlighting the moral complexities of land ownership.
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