1. The Oppression of American Indians
... superior. The Westerners were the dominant group during colonization, and by denouncing the natives as the others, the savages, they thought they could dominate or exterminate them, (Anderson). The Euro-American view of the American Indian is historically significant because it shaped the attitudes of those who would later construct Indian policy in the nineteenth century. Whether it was relocation in the 1830's, reservations in the 1850's, or assimilation in the 1880's, the discrimination and ... oppression of American Indian policy in the U.S. relied heavily on ... ...
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