American History: Indian Policy
Indian Policy: In 1881, President Chester Arthur said that the U.S. had to deal with "the appalling fact that though thousands of lives have been sacrificed and hundreds of millions of dollars" have been spent on "the Indian problem," nothing has been permanent or satisfactory. And so, he proposed: one, apply state laws to the Indians living on reservations within each state; and two, give the Indians land in the West in turn for their agreement to "sever their tribal relations and to engage at once in agricultural pursuits" (after all, "their hunting days are over" and its best for them to "conform...to the new order of things...") (w
foreign policy, but it was the operative attitude when the U. the moral and spiritual "right" to expand its territory across North America and beyond. Foreign Policy: The way in which the Indian "problem" was "solved" is closely tied into the American policy of "Manifest Destiny," which was the belief that the United States had "a mission to expand, spreading its form of democracy and freedom" (http://en. became an imperialist nation, taking over territories because we could; and, as author Stanley Karnow writes, "There's a kind of intangible, evangelical reason for doing it - like a crusade" (www. Bush talk about getting involved in Iraq.
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