Report Reveals Thomas Jefferson's Plan to Force Native Americans Into Debt

Report Reveals Thomas Jefferson's Plan to Force Native Americans Into Debt

Report Reveals, Thomas Jefferson's Plan, to Force Native Americans Into Debt.

Business Insider reports that Thomas Jefferson once wrote to Congress regarding plans to drive Native Americans into debt as a means of forcing them off their land.

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Business Insider reports that Thomas Jefferson once wrote to Congress regarding plans to drive Native Americans into debt as a means of forcing them off their land.

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Jefferson's note to Congress was referenced in an Interior Department report published on May 11.

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According to the report, Jefferson felt that a, "policy of assimilation", would be a more cost effective way for the government to obtain the territory of Native American tribes.

Part of this plan was to encourage Native Americans to use credit to make purchases that they would be unable to pay back and force them to "cede their land" to the U.S. Part of this plan was to encourage Native Americans to use credit to make purchases that they would be unable to pay back and force them to "cede their land" to the U.S. Another aspect of Jefferson's plan was to encourage Native Americans to abandon their hunting lifestyle and raise more livestock.

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Another aspect of Jefferson's plan was to encourage Native Americans to abandon their hunting lifestyle and raise more livestock.

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The extensive forests necessary in the hunting life, will then become useless, and they will see advantage in exchanging them for the means of improving their farms, and of increasing their domestic comforts, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Congress, via Business Insider.

According to the report, it was Jefferson's suggestions that went on to form the basis of the Federal Indian law and policy.

The report also investigated "Indian Schools" where Indigenous children were forcibly assimilated after being taken from their families.

According to the investigation, over 500 of these abductee students died while attending one of the 408 schools established to assimilate Native Americans.

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According to the investigation, over 500 of these abductee students died while attending one of the 408 schools established to assimilate Native Americans.

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The investigation also uncovered that abuse, including beatings and solitary confinement, were common in the assimilation schools.

The investigation also uncovered that abuse, including beatings and solitary confinement, were common in the assimilation schools