A route to primary records, not a complete causal account of Indigenous history. Publication requires the original reports and Indigenous-centered scholarship.
The section combines military, congressional, and Indian-agent testimony with Minnick's caution about institutional self-exculpation.
The book reproduces nineteenth-century official statements alleging that traders intoxicated Indigenous people, depressed exchange value, stole property, and damaged trust, while also warning that government blame of traders could obscure state removal and violence.
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