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social science subjects > sociology > race, ethnicity and migration > reservation life and Native Americans

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reservation life and Native Americans  

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  • During the 18th and 19th centuries, the United States pursued a strategy of ethnic cleansing to force hundreds of linguistically, culturally, and politically distinct indigenous peoples with their own rich histories of alliances, trade, and cultural exchange onto Indian reservations—remote, poor vestiges of their vast former holdings. The prevailing political discourse cast Native Americans as savages standing in the way of progress and the Manifest Destiny of the white race to settle the continent all the way to the Pacific. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Native Americans, Reservation Life]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-VR9ZFR4N-6

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