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How come the people who were there at the time, the white settlers of the 1700's and 1800's, thought Indians were vermin - and now we think the "noble red man" was taking care of the land?

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Not necessarily true Ozark. Fact is that a lot of the very early mingling of the Cherokees, and the mixing, occurred in the Carolina's and Georgia. The area around southern Virginia and North Caroline was, and is well known for the insertion of Indian blood into white settlers families.
It wasn't until Jackson and the Democrats took office that the move to occupy Indian lands began in earnest. The Cherokees and the Creeks were above average farmers, with above average farms, and there was no shortage of whites who didn't want do the work if they could freely occupy. After the big push in 1839 it was non stop until the turn of the century. My point is that it wasn't because the Indians were considered a threat or health problem, it was simply land, nothing more, nothing less.

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