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| Theodore Roosevelt |
Expressing the frontier anti-Indian sentiment, Theodore Roosevelt believed the Indians were destined to vanish under the pressure of white civilization, stating in an 1886 lecture:
I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.[*]
[*] Cary Michael Carney (1999). "Native American Higher Education in the United States". pp. 65–66. Transaction Publications
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. He is recorded as having said this in an 1886 speech:
(**) ""L. Frank Baum's Editorials on the Sioux Nation"". Archived from the original on December 9, 2007. Retrieved December 9, 2007. Full text of both, with commentary by professor A. Waller HastingsThe Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.(**)