Their country is being overrun by strangers, the game slaughtered and driven away, the streams depleted of fish, and hitherto unknown and fatal diseases brought to them, all of which combine to produce a state of abject poverty and want which must result in their extinction.
Roosevelt addresses the dire situation faced by indigenous peoples due to external pressures and environmental degradation.
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