He utterly failed to grasp the central features of the situation, which were that the settlers needed the land, and were bound to have it, within a few years; and that the Indians would not give it up, under no matter what treaty, without an appeal to arms.
Roosevelt critiques the misunderstanding of the urgency and complexity of land acquisition between settlers and Native Americans.
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