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Teddy Roosevelt: “Their treatment both of the Indians, whom they professed to protect, and of the Americans, with whom they professed to…”

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Their treatment both of the Indians, whom they professed to protect, and of the Americans, with whom they professed to be friendly, forms one of the darkest pages in the annals of the British in America.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt highlights the dark legacy of British treatment of both Native Americans and Americans during this period.

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