dc.contributor.advisor | Henry, Robin | |
dc.contributor.author | Paintin, McKenna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-20T16:31:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-06-20T16:31:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-05 | |
dc.identifier.other | t22020 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/23461 | |
dc.description | Thesis (M.A.)-- Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of History | |
dc.description.abstract | The United States launched a multi-pronged genocide against the Native Americans in
order to achieve Manifest Destiny. It was not political manipulation nor economic dependency
nor cultural genocide alone that forced the exploitation of Native Americans—but all of them as
a unified front. European powers first practiced exploitative colonialism, but it gradually
transformed into settler colonialism under the United States. The federal government justified
their actions with European imperialist policies and myths of savagery and “Noble Savages.”
The Marshall Trilogy validated these justifications. Progressive reformers of the later nineteenth
century deemed the previous treatment of Native Americans too harsh, so they misguidedly
created boarding schools to Americanize the Indigenous population. This paper dissects the
collective effort and intricate methods of economic, political, and cultural colonization in North
America, and also includes a deep analysis of the moral and legal justification of settler
colonialism. | |
dc.format.extent | ix, 117 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Wichita State University | |
dc.rights | © Copyright 2022 by McKenna Paintin
All Rights Reserved | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Electronic dissertations | |
dc.title | Native American colonization | |
dc.type | Thesis | |