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Teddy Roosevelt: “We committed plenty of blunders, and now and then worse than blunders, in our dealings with the Indians.”

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We committed plenty of blunders, and now and then worse than blunders, in our dealings with the Indians.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt reflects on the blunders made in dealing with Native Americans.

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