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Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny - Softcover

Miller, Robert J.

 
9780803215986: Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803215983 ISBN 13: 9780803215986
Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Native America, Discovered and Conquered takes a fresh look at American history through the lens of the Doctrine of Discovery—the legal basis that Europeans and Americans used to lay claim to the land of the indigenous peoples they “discovered.” Robert J. Miller illustrates how the American colonies used the Doctrine of Discovery against the Indian nations from 1606 forward. Thomas Jefferson used the doctrine to exert American authority in the Louisiana Territory, to win the Pacific Northwest from European rivals, and to “conquer” the Indian nations. In the broader sense, these efforts began with the Founding Fathers and with Thomas Jefferson’s Corps of Discovery, and eventually the Doctrine of Discovery became part of American law, as it still is today.
 
Miller shows how Manifest Destiny grew directly out of the legal elements and policies of the Doctrine of Discovery and how Native peoples, whose rights stood in the way of this destiny, were “discovered” and then “conquered.” Miller’s analysis of the principles of discovery brings a new perspective and valuable insights to the study of Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, the Louisiana Purchase, the Pacific Northwest, American expansionism, and U.S. Indian policy. This Bison Books edition includes a new afterword by the author.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert J. Miller is a professor at the Lewis and Clark Law School and chief justice of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde in Oregon and a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
 
Elizabeth Furse is a former Oregon congresswoman and former director of the Institute for Tribal Government, Hatfield School, at Portland State University.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803215983
ISBN 13 
9780803215986
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
216
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