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Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny
Robert J. Miller, Elizabeth Furse
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 - History - 214 pages
Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they "discovered." Thus the competition among the United States and European nations to establish claims of who got there first became very important. In the United States, the British colonists who had recently become Americans were competing with the English, French, and Spanish for control of lands west of the Mississippi. Who would be the "discoverers" of the Indians and their lands, the United States or the European countries? We know the answer, of course, but in this book, Miller for the first time explains exactly how the United States achieved victory, not only on the ground, but also in the developing legal thought of the day. The American effort began with Thomas Jefferson's authorization of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which set out in 1803 to lay claim to the West. Lewis and Clark had several charges, among them the discovery of a Northwest Passage--a land route across the continent--in order to establish an American fur trade with China. In addition, the Corps of Northwestern Discovery, as the expedition was called, cataloged new plant and animal life, and performed detailed ethnographic research on the Indians they encountered. This fascinating book lays out how that ethnographic research became the legal basis for Indian removal practices implemented decades later, explaining how the Doctrine of Discovery became part of American law, as it still is today.
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1 The Doctrine of Discovery
2 The Doctrine of Discovery in America
3 Thomas Jefferson and the Doctrine of Discovery
4 Thomas Jefferson Manifest Destiny and the Indian Nations
5 Lewis and Clark and Discovery
6 Manifest Destiny and Discovery
7 The United States Exercise of Discovery against the Indian Nations 17742005
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Page 16 - The United States, then, have unequivocally' acceded to that great and broad rule, by which its civilized inhabitants now hold this country. They hold, and assert in themselves, the title, by which it was acquired. They maintain, as all others have maintained, that discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy, either by purchase or by conquest...
Page 16 - They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion: but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations...
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Robert J. Miller is Faculty Director, Rosette LLP, American Indian Economic Development Program, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University and Chief Justice, Court of Appeals, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. He is a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
Title Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny
Native America, ISSN 1552-8022
Native America: Yesterday And Today
Authors Robert J. Miller, Elizabeth Furse
Contributor Elizabeth Furse
Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006
History / Expeditions & Discoveries
History / Native American
History / United States / 19th Century
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies