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by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 804 days ago
“General Sherman remarked, in conversation the other day, that the quickest way to compel the Indians to settle down to civilized life was to send ten regiments of soldiers to the plains, with orders to shoot buffaloes until they became too scarce to support the redskins.”

Oof. I didn't know that was Sherman's take on it.