Pat Buchanan on Lincoln's crimes against native Americans

A renaming committee of the San Francisco school district wants the Great Emancipator’s name removed from Lincoln High School for crimes against Native Americans. 

Our 16th president ordered the Navajo tribe off their Arizona lands into New Mexico, resulting in a forced march of 450 miles. He approved the hanging of 38 Dakota Indians who had fought in the Dakota War in Minnesota in 1862, the largest mass execution in U.S. history. 

Lincoln’s Homestead and Pacific Railway acts led to the loss of large swaths of tribal lands.

~ Patrick Buchanan, "After Lee, It's Lincoln's Turn," LewRockwell.com, December 18, 2020

Indian Hunting Buffalo
1898

Charlene Day-Castro on the toppling of the Christopher Columbus statue in St. Paul

For us as Native American people, we think yesterday was an awesome day.  It is huge, a significant event that happened yesterday, although it might’ve been against some laws, it wasn’t against our natural laws.

~ Charlene Day-Castro, "Native American families react to the removal of Christopher Columbus statue in St. Paul," Eyewitness News, KSTP-TV, June 11, 2020

William Tecumseh Sherman on exterminating the Sioux Indians

We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

~ General William Tecumseh Sherman

Sitting Bull
1989

Michael Fellman on the post-Civil War "final solution to the Indian problem"

Sherman, Grant and Sheridan
1937

[T]he great triumvirate of the Union Civil War effort [Grant, Sherman and Sheridan] formulated and enacted military Indian policy until reaching, by the 1880s, what Sherman sometimes referred to as "the final solution of the Indian problem," which he defined as killing hostile Indians and segregating their pauperized survivors in remote places . . . . These men applied their shared ruthlessness, born of their Civil War experiences, against a people all three despised, in the name of Civilization and Progress.

~ Michael Fellman, Citizen Sherman (1995)

(As quoted by Tom DiLorenzo, "How Lincoln's Army 'Liberated' the Indians," LewRockwell.com, February 12, 2003

William Tecumseh Sherman on genocide against the Indians

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

American Indian
1922-1925