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Seeds of Extinction

Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian

Bernard W. Sheehan

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/2013
Pages: 313
Subject: History | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807839911

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This study is the first to explain how the white American's conception of himself and his position on the continent formed his perception of the Indian and directed his selection of policy toward the native tribes. Sheehan presents the paradoxical and pathetic story of how the Jeffersonian generation, with the best of goodwill toward the American Indian, destroyed him with its benevolence, literally killed him with kindness.

Originally published 1973.

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