How do you regard the frontier government’s policy on Indians? Paul HughesVacaville, California A lot of mistakes were made regarding the Indians. The whites wanted to turn the red man into a white man, while the War Department and the Department of Interior fought over who should dictate policy to the Indians. Plus, everybody wanted the land the Indians lived on. Even Gen. U.S. Grant wrote in 1865: “It may be the Indians require as much protection from the whites as the whites do from the I
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