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December 1, 2009

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Comments by user: LvBrave

To: Retired_USARMY

You also forgot what "America" did to the Native American people in "Our Country" when they first came over to America!

Thomas Jefferson, our icon of freedom and personal liberty set the national policy toward Native Americans that would last for over one hundred years. He began the trail of tears which would destroy cultures and result in the reservation system.

Always a man of dichotomies, Jefferson admired and lauded the American Indian. As a man of the Romantic Era he saw them as unspoiled; the "noble savage". As, also, a man of the Enlightenment, with its analytical detachment, he knew that the Indian way of life could no longer exist in an expanding United States.

(Suggest removal) 12/1/08 at 5:09 p.m.

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