Unworthy Republic Quotes

“Native peoples imbibed all of the vices of U.S. citizens, they claimed, while slaves absorbed their virtues.”
― Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

“in the first two decades of the nineteenth century, the indigenous land base shrank by 600,000 square miles, an area roughly the size of Alaska.10”
― Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory