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By Robert J. Miller

Native the United States, found and Conquered takes a clean examine American historical past during the lens of the Doctrine of Discovery—the felony foundation that Europeans and americans used to put declare to the land of the indigenous peoples they “discovered.” Robert J. Miller illustrates how the yankee colonies used the Doctrine of Discovery opposed to the Indian countries from 1606 ahead. Thomas Jefferson used the doctrine to exert American authority within the Louisiana Territory, to win the Pacific Northwest from eu competitors, and to “conquer” the Indian international locations. within the broader feel, those efforts started with the Founding Fathers and with Thomas Jefferson’s Corps of Discovery, and finally the Doctrine of Discovery grew to become a part of American legislations, because it nonetheless is today.
 
Miller indicates how happen future grew at once out of the criminal parts and rules of the Doctrine of Discovery and the way local peoples, whose rights stood within the manner of this future, have been “discovered” after which “conquered.” Miller’s research of the rules of discovery brings a brand new point of view and beneficial insights to the research of Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, the Louisiana buy, the Pacific Northwest, American expansionism, and U.S. Indian coverage. This Bison Books version encompasses a new afterword by means of the author.

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