{"id":14850,"date":"2013-03-20T03:58:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T03:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14850"},"modified":"2013-03-20T03:58:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T03:58:37","slug":"let-our-settlements-and-theirs-meet-and-blend-together-to-intermix-and-become-one-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14850","title":{"rendered":"Let our settlements and theirs meet and blend together, to intermix, and become one people&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the third year of his presidency, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a> pleaded \u201cto let our settlements and theirs [Indians] meet and blend together, to intermix, and become one people.\u201d Six years later, just before returning to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monticello\" target=\"_blank\">Monticello<\/a>, Jefferson promised a group of western Indian chiefs, \u201cyou will unite yourselves with us,&#8230; and we shall all be Americans; you will mix with us by marriage, your blood will run in our veins, and will spread with us over this great island.\u201d<sup>5<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gary B. Nash, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14127\" target=\"_blank\">The Hidden History of Mestizo America<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Journal of American History<\/em>, Volume 82, Number 3 (December, 1995): 941-964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the third year of his presidency, Thomas Jefferson pleaded \u201cto let our settlements and theirs [Indians] meet and blend together, to intermix, and become one people.\u201d Six years later, just before returning to Monticello, Jefferson promised a group of western Indian chiefs, \u201cyou will unite yourselves with us,&#8230; and we shall all be Americans; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,459],"tags":[2059,1867,477],"class_list":["post-14850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","category-history","tag-gary-b-nash","tag-gary-nash","tag-thomas-jefferson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}