ated with Indian removal. During this time, the subject of removal carried much debate and controversy, and both pro and anti-Indian perspectives received attention in the press. In most cases, Indians were not described on their own terms but by the norms of the white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant society that wrote and read about them.
             Many anti-Indian writers described the Indians as a race of weak, cruel, and easily corruptible people. This idea grew from the widespread belief that stronger, more civilized races were meant to dominate weaker, more primitive ones. Principles that trickled down from President Jackson made removal a logical and necessar
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