By Stewart L. Udall
Former secretary of the internal and local westerner Stewart L. Udall attracts on huge examine and his significant wisdom of and adventure within the American West to provide a provocative new examine the most vital chapters of yankee historical past. He offers a desirable and wide-ranging evaluate of western background and those that have written approximately it, difficult traditional knowledge on topics starting from occur future to the significance of japanese capitalists to the function of faith in westward cost.
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Jackson’s policies cast a prolonged, baleful influence on American attitudes and Indian policy making. They fostered the myth that Indians were savages who could not be civilized. They legitimized the concept that Indian treaties could—and should—be broken with impunity. And they implanted the idea in Washington that so-called Indian problems ultimately had to be resolved by military force. ” BEGINNINGS In , the Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, H. B. Whipple, aptly described the harm Andrew Jackson’s policies had done to the national ethic.
These pioneers plowed treeless grasslands in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, where erratic weather often blighted crops and hopes. Like their counterparts who traveled to the Far West, these subsistence farmers brought all their belongings in wagons and relied on their horses, cows, pigs, and chickens for sustenance. Introduction 3 Their day-to-day struggle on this demanding frontier is a story of adversities ranging from recurring droughts to occasional raids by natives who resisted incursions into their homelands.
The treks gave these Europeans an initial look at the geography of the southern sector of what is now the United States and made it possible for them to bring back knowledge about the primitive— and not-so-primitive—societies the aboriginal peoples who populated this region had developed. Some of the natives encountered by the exploring parties were nomadic, but others lived a pastoral life in villages, hunting game and harvesting a wide variety of crops. Some, the explorers noticed, such as the Pueblo Indians in the Southwest, lived in cohesive communities centered on religious rituals and beliefs.