Homework Help: social studies

Posted by patrick on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 9:32pm.

What does this quote mean?
“Why should the Indian be expected to plant corn, fence lands, build houses, or do anything but get food from day to day, when experience has taught him that the product of his labor will be seized by the white man to-morrow? The most industrious white man would become a drone under similar circumstances. Nevertheless, many of the Indians” (the commissioners might more forcibly have said 130,000 of the Indians) “are already at work, and furnish ample refutation of the assertion that ‘the Indian will not work: There is no escape from the inexorable logic of facts.

social studies - Ms. Sue, Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 9:56pm
The quote means that Indians work as hard as anyone else.

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