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Manifest Destiny and its negative effect on the Native American populations, esp. CA Indians (Cupenos and Nez Perce) and their placement upon reservations.
Title: Manifest Destiny and its negative effect on the Native American populations, esp. CA Indians (Cupenos and Nez Perce) and their placement upon reservations.
Category: History / North American History
Details: Words: 945 | Pages: 4.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Manifest Destiny and its negative effect on the Native American populations, esp. CA Indians (Cupenos and Nez Perce) and their placement upon reservations.
Manifest Destiny is defined as "a belief that it was God's will that Americans spread over the entire continent, and to control and populate the country as they see fit." Many expansionists conceived God as having the power to sustain and guide human destiny. It was white man's heavy burden to conquer and Christianize the heathen and savage land. While the positive side of Manifest Destiny was a surge of enthusiasm and energy from the …showed first 75 words of 945 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 945 total…tribe relocated to Pala, California, just beyond the Palomar Mountains where a 10,000-acre reservation had been established. Pala was a Luiseno reservation then, not Cupa. This act marked the first time in U.S. history that two distinct Indian tribes were herded together in one reservation. This was a blemish upon a nation that prided itself on leading the world into the 20th Century and the cultural and political renaissance that accompanied such a transition.
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