“The tribal relations should be broken up, socialism destroyed, & the family & the autonomy of the individual substituted. The allotment of land in severalty, the establishment of local courts & police... & the universal adoption of the English language are means to an end.” 
— Thomas Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1889)
Indian policy wasn’t an accident. It unfolded by design and specifically targeted the communal aspect of Indigenous social relations, which were broken by breaking up the land.
"From the time of the discovery of America... the North American Indian has been a communist... [T]he idea of the separate possession of property by individuals is as foreign to the Indian mind as communism is to us." —House Committee on Indian Affairs, 1880
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