STILL AND ALL, by, say, september 17, 1787, certain facts should have, it would seem, been obvious to the framers. Among them, that the new nation would grow, and would spread european-american culture across the continent. Therefore, something would have "to be done" about the natives along the way. The problems and limits of merely forever marching them westward were easily foreseeable.
A comprehensive game plan should have been in place early on in our nation's history, which could have spared us over a hundred years of chaos and agony. What if, for instance, the land that is now georgia were dividedinto two states, georgia, and...cherokee....a state established by the five civilized tribes, administered in their chosen way, within the U.S. constitution, like all other states?
The way things turned out, the way thigns are now, bear in mind, the indians are shoved off into the far corners of the country on reservations, with high levels of unemployment and poverty and alcoholism, and a lot of legalized gambling, and reliance on government welfare.
almost anything would be better than that, wouldn't it?
Do we really need a north dakota and a south dakota? One of them could have been an indian run state.
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