dec 6, 1852 - Third Annual State of the Union Message. “. . . in California and Oregon there has been no recognition by the Government of the exclusive right of the Indians to any part of the country. They are therefore mere tenants at sufferance, and liable to be driven from place to place at the pleasure of the whites.”
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dec 6, 1852
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