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The Right of Conquest: the principles of nationhood found in ancient Israel to the Massachusetts Bay Company with no need for explanation. This led the Puritans to interpret Scripture in an ultimately pretentious way that gave their own state and society the exalted status of a New Israel. Old Testament law was directly, if not exclusively, incorporated into the legal systems of New England. The Massachusetts “Body of Liberties.” The American Indians were the “new Canaanites” in America’s “Promised Land.” The fruit of Puritan theology was brutal. They saw their mission as convert these “Canaanites” to Christianity; failing that, it was acceptable to slaughter them in the name of Christ.
***Since the white man has made a road across our land and has killed off our game civility, we are hungry , and there is nothing for us to eat. Our women and children cry for food and we have no food to give them. Washakie
The gold rush had proved a disaster for the Indians of the Plains. The cholera brought by the wagon trains had killed half of the northern Cheyennes. When a group of Pawnees went off to hunt buffalo, they found that the herds along the main wagon trail had been driven away. Some starved to death on the way back to their villages. And competition for the dwindling game intensified rivalries between tribes which had been going on for generations.
"This is a period of incredible chaos on the Plains. The Lakota and their allies are expanding, there's warfare everywhere. The Americans are beginning to penetrate across the Plains to California. It's a real challenge for the American government to bring the situation under control. What they succeed in doing, is making it absolutely worse." Richard White
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