Report Reveals, Thomas Jefferson's Plan, to Force Native Americans Into Debt.<br />Business Insider reports that Thomas Jefferson once wrote <br />to Congress regarding plans to drive Native Americans <br />into debt as a means of forcing them off their land. .<br />Business Insider reports that Thomas Jefferson once wrote <br />to Congress regarding plans to drive Native Americans <br />into debt as a means of forcing them off their land. .<br />Jefferson's note to Congress was referenced in an Interior Department report published on May 11. .<br />According to the report, Jefferson felt that a, "policy of assimilation", would be a more cost effective way for the government <br />to obtain the territory of Native American tribes.<br />Part of this plan was to encourage Native Americans to use <br />credit to make purchases that they would be unable to <br />pay back and force them to "cede their land" to the U.S.<br />Part of this plan was to encourage Native Americans to use <br />credit to make purchases that they would be unable to <br />pay back and force them to "cede their land" to the U.S.<br />Another aspect of Jefferson's plan was to encourage Native Americans to abandon their hunting lifestyle and raise more livestock. .<br />Another aspect of Jefferson's plan was to encourage Native Americans to abandon their hunting lifestyle and raise more livestock. .<br />The extensive forests necessary in the <br />hunting life, will then become useless, <br />and they will see advantage in exchanging <br />them for the means of improving their farms, <br />and of increasing their domestic comforts, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Congress, <br />via Business Insider.<br />According to the report, it was Jefferson's <br />suggestions that went on to form the basis <br />of the Federal Indian law and policy.<br />The report also investigated "Indian Schools"<br />where Indigenous children were forcibly <br />assimilated after being taken from their families.<br />According to the investigation, over 500 of these abductee <br />students died while attending one of the 408 schools <br />established to assimilate Native Americans. .<br />According to the investigation, over 500 of these abductee <br />students died while attending one of the 408 schools <br />established to assimilate Native Americans. .<br />The investigation also uncovered that abuse, including beatings and solitary confinement, <br />were common in the assimilation schools.<br />The investigation also uncovered that abuse, including beatings and solitary confinement, <br />were common in the assimilation schools
