Fort Smith National Historic Site on the Arkansas River: Yet another history lesson I must have slept through, but one that seems to me so very important to understand in light of what is going on around the world today. It is hard for me to imagine that this was US. policy right around the time that my house back in NJ was built.
"And is it supposed that the wandering savage has a stronger attachment to his home than the settled, civilized Christian? Is it more afflicting to him to leave the graves of his fathers than it is to our brothers and children? Rightly considered, the policy of the General Government toward the red man is not only liberal, but generous. He is unwilling to submit to the laws of the States and mingle with their population. To save him from this alternative, or perhaps utter annihilation, the General Government kindly offers him a new home, and proposes to pay the whole expense of his removal and settlement. 
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