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increasingly aggressive approach to the expanding of the white-settler presence in Indian territories, from the British colonial period through the mid-18th century:

Since colonial days the story had been the same: new lands for settlement had been procured from the Indian tribes by purchase, or by conquest if the asking price were too high. The time-honored practice had been to ply the chiefs with whiskey and when they were drunk enough to present them with treaties

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