HIST 2057 Lecture : Week 3 Settling And Unsettling Part II
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The destruction of native peoples: native american wars. Pre-civil war, congress not overly concerned with great plains. The incorporation of the west into the national economy spelled the doom of the plains indians and their world. Civil war generals fighting indians in the west. "(it is) our manifest destiny to over spread and to possess the whole of the continent which providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty . The anglo-saxons (northern european whites) are divinely ordained to take over and civilize the west: eradicating narrative ways of life. Mid-19th century us policy makers and military commanders. Objective: the complete extermination of any native people who resisted. Assimilation into the colonizing culture: dispossession of lands. Assigned indians onto least desirable land- reservations . Indians as wards of the state (become completely dependent on the government) Denied right to become u. s. citizens: buffalo become decimated by the end of the century.
