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Sneider, Leah – American Indian Quarterly, 2012
Arming themselves with "manifest destiny" rhetoric, which claimed divine Anglo-Saxon superiority as justification for the conquest of Indigenous and Mexican peoples and the land they occupied, white settlers forcefully pushed into California territory. The two-year-long Mexican-American War resulted in the acquisition of the present-day…
Descriptors: United States History, Tribes, Autobiographies, American Indians
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Mayes, Arion T. – American Indian Quarterly, 2010
At approximately 9,500 years old, two sets of human remains from La Jolla, California (W-12), known as the University House Burials due to the physical location of their discovery on property owned by the University of California, San Diego, are some of the oldest in the United States. These burials are central to a repatriation controversy…
Descriptors: Human Body, Death, American Indians, Cultural Differences