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The people of Tennessee were the wronged, and not the wrongdoers, and it was upon them that the heaviest strokes of the Indians fell.
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Roosevelt asserts the victimhood of the Tennessee settlers in their conflicts with Native Americans, framing them as the true victims of violence.
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