Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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To justify these breaches of the “permanent Indian frontier,” the policy makers in Washington invented Manifest Destiny, a term which lifted land hunger to a lofty plane. The Europeans and their descendants were ordained by destiny to rule all of America. They were the dominant race and therefore responsible for the Indians—along with their lands, their forests, and their mineral wealth. Only the New Englanders, who had destroyed or driven out all their Indians, spoke against Manifest Destiny.
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Congress overrides the President’s veto of Civil Rights Bill and gives equal rights to all persons born in United States (except Indians);