APPENDICES 



APPENDIX A TO CHAPTER IV 



IT is greatly to be wished that some competent 

 person would write a full and true history of our 

 national dealings with the Indians. Undoubtedly 

 the latter have often suffered terrible injustice at our 

 hands. A number of instances, such as the conduct 

 of the Georgians to the Cherokees in the early part 

 of the present century, or the whole treatment of 

 Chief Joseph and his Nez Perc.es, might be men- 

 tioned, which are indelible blots on our fair fame; 

 and yet, in describing our dealings with the red 

 men as a whole, historians do us much less than jus- 

 tice. 



It was wholly impossible to avoid conflicts with 

 the weaker race, unless we were willing to see the 

 American continent fall into the hands of some 

 other strong power ; and even had we adopted such 

 a ludicrous policy, the Indians themselves would 

 have made war upon us. It can not be too often 

 insisted that they did not own the land ; or, at least, 

 that their ownership was merely such as that 

 claimed often by our own white hunters. If the 

 Indians really owned Kentucky in 1775, then in 

 1776 it was the property of Boone and his asso- 



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