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Post by Robert Braun on Apr 27, 2004 12:30:14 GMT -5
Money was important in Government-Indian relations, because the goal was to make the Indians dependent on the whites, to prepare them for relocation. Huh?  What money are you talking about... the budget fixed by Congress for construction of Army reservations like Fort Winnebago, which was the direction this thread seemed to be going, or the annuity paid to the Winnebago in accordance with previous treaty agreements? Bob. |
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Post by Chris on Apr 27, 2004 14:09:29 GMT -5
Bob, I admit that I tend to take threads away from their original topics. However, I believe that any time and place in history needs to be understood in the context of what happened before and after. Events cannot be studied in isolation.
Sorry. General statement, relevant to that situation, which eventually led to:
The later situation of placing Indians on relatively small pieces of land, and depriving them of traditional means of self-support, while handing out rotten pork and weevel-infested flour.
Maybe those abuses were not specific to that time, but government dependency led to that. And probably few Americans were aware of any intent to make Indians dependent on government goods/money. Anybody ever heard of Charles Mix?
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What money are you talking about... the budget fixed by Congress for construction of Army reservations like Fort Winnebago, which was the direction this thread seemed to be going, or the annuity paid to the Winnebago in accordance with previous treaty agreements?
