so it’s interesting.....Sherman has real clarity when it comes to the Indians as well.
The US’ arrangement with the numerous Indian tribes/nations also has significant complications/nuances/difficulties....and it is not unlike the legal/conceptual difficulties of reconsttruction of a federal system after civil war. It essentially is defining something as a “nation” and also a a “conquered state” while (pretending) to respect the conquereds culture and tradition....also has the problem in many cases of confining a people group that were nomadic to a geographic area.
Lots of legal difficulties here.
And of course the US was not great in keeping all of the treaties that it agreed to.
Very difficult stuff.
Not sure that Sherman’s “clarity” is right....But....he at least had real clarity. Not a lot of gray in his views.
Having just traveled from Ft Griffin to Ft Richardson (Texas y'all) and not seeing any Indians, he got the report of the Warren Wagontrain Massacare on the road his party had just traveled.