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You know I'm not sure if you're joking but I'm genuinely curious now.
Edit: I looked it up and most of what I could find was, "Let's finish killing all the Indians". 😬
Lmao I was just joking because he died only a month after taking office, but I did not expect that!
lmao I'm glad that bitch died
IIRC he was famous for being the guy that ended Tecumseh's war, so yeah, he didn't have the fondest opinions of indigenous rights
William Harrison was a Whig, which was definitely the more progressive party at the time. His vice president, John Tyler, abandoned the Whig party and aligned himself more with Andrew Jackson and the Democrats, which were the conservative party at the time. It should be noted that the Whigs were much less destructive toward Indians than the Jackson and the Democrats, and Tyler was also strongly anti-Indian and anti-Mexican.
Here were the political positions of the Whig party: