By the time the English had consolidated the Atlantic colonies under their rule, the Indians had become what they have remained ever since, the most formidable savage foes ever encountered by colonists of European stock.
This quote reflects Roosevelt's view on the formidable nature of Native American resistance to European colonization.
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