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Andrew Jackson: “That those tribes can not exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens is certain.”

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That those tribes can not exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens is certain.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson asserts the impossibility of tribes coexisting with American settlements.

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