Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown

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—

If the Indians had tried to make the whites live like them, the whites would have resisted, and it was the same way with many Indians.