"The plan reduced to its simplest from had seven elements

1:- Maintaining peace with the Indians, using a limited system of forts garrisoned by regular troops to try to prevent white encrachmentand other abuses, which might provoke border warfare, and to supress incipient Indian Uprisings.

2:- Use a nonprofit, whiskey free chain of ppublicly supported fur trade factories to counter the influence of foriegn (primarily British) traders and to get leading Indians so far into debt that thye would be willing to seel their land to pay off hteir obligation"

3:- Employ the Indian superintendents and agents under the direction of the War Department to keep the tribes from alliances with encircling, hostile powers (at one time and in one place or another Britain, Spain and France) and pursuade them to sell the land.

4:-Encircle the Eastern tribes of by firstt acquiring the land on the East bank of the Mississippi, compressing them into a vast but ever shrinking enclave between the Mississippi and the Appalachian Mountains

5:- As game diminishes in the Eastern enclave, offer the tribes the capital goods and education needed for survival as European-style agriculturalists and citizens of the Republic in exchange for their lands

6:- For those who reject the offer of "civilization" as the sole alternative to their extinction, removal to the Louisiana Purchase, which will become the next native enclave, where refugees and aboriginal residents freely hunt for skins and furs and trade to the mutual profit with the United States and her citizens, until such time as the land is needed for white settlement.

7:- When border trouble escalates to the point of threatened or actual war, obtian Indian lands at a price for peace"

A.F.C Wallace Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic fate of the First Americans The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusettes, 1999, 255