e important consequence was the dividing of land and far more rigid land controls than the Indians had ever seen.
The history of the British colonial and then U.S. government's administration of Indian country, backed up by an Army presence belies any idea that white settlers, armed with firearms, firewater, and trading them, as convenient, for tomahawks, might have refrained from settling where they pleased. Wiltse sees a shift toward an increasingly aggressive means of expanding the white-settle
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