The West: Expansion and Encounters

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The West Expansion and Encounters

• The Ideology of Expansion
• Industrial centers in the West
• Encounters the Multi-cultural West
• Encounters the conquest of native Americans

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Manifest Destiny
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• The American claim is by the right of our
  manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the
  whole of the continent which providence has given
  us for the development of the great experiment of
  liberty and federated self-government entrusted
  to us.
• John OSullivan, 1845

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Extent of settlement, 1890
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The Multicultural West
Mormon immigrant caravan, 1879
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Thostonsen family, sod house, Nebraska, 1892
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Custer County, Nebraksa, 1888
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Oklahoma cotton field, 1897
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Buffalo soldiers
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Chinese school children, San Francisco, 1890s
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Conquest of the Native Americans
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Conquest of Native Americans

• Plains Indians
• Warfare
• Destruction of the buffalo
• Assimilation
• Dawes Act, 1887
• They have got as far as they can go, because
  they hold their land in common.
• Indian boarding schools

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Kill the Indian to save the man. Richard H.
Pratt, founder of Carlisle Indian School
At once I was thrust into an alien world, into
an environment as different from the one into
which I had been born as it is possible to
imagine, to remake myself, if I could, into the
likeness of the invader. Luther Standing Bear
(attended Carlisle Indian School, 1883)
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To send a child to school meant, to the Indian,
the giving up of all his distinctive tribal life,
his ancestral customs, his religious beliefs, and
sinking himself into the vast unknown, the way of
the white man. Charles Hall, mission school
minister
I was in the hands of strangers whom my mother
did not fully trust. I no longer felt free to be
myself, or to voice my own feelings. . . . Like a
slender tree, I had been uprooted from my mother,
nature, and God Zitkala-Sa (Sioux), 1921
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Graduating class, 1894. Indian Industrial
School, Carlisle, Pa.
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Spokane Indian children at Indian school in
Oregon, 1882
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Memorializing the first American
City Park, Denver
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Oskaloosa, Iowa