Excerpt from Report of the Executive Council on the Proceedings of the First Annual Conference of the Society of American Indians: Washington, D. C., 1912 The common ground which every tribe had in Tecumseh's time was the oppression Of the red race by the various divisions Of the white race that had invaded America. Much Of this Oppression was due to pure love Of conquest and the consequent destruction Of a people possessing inadequate means Of defense. Much of it also was due to the natural misunderstanding that exists between races Of radically difierent environments and dif ferent stages Of ethnic culture. It was also due largely to the conception on the part Of the white race that it had inherently superior rights and was morally justified in. Oppressing and exterminating the original occupant Of America. Some Of these ideas unfortunately exist today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.