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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