The Decline of Indian Tribal Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century

<p>The artificial air of the Nineteenth Century was filled with such pious asininities as "the white man's burden" and "saving the heathen form hell". To our cynical generation this jargon of concealed desires seems the ultimate in hypocrisy but it should be remembered that such an attitude was not an isolated phenomenon; it was merely one of the high points in an imperialism which is as old as modern civilization.</p> <p>Conquest is almost synonymous with man who, motivated by the conflict between inertia and the necessity of existence, will whenever possible force some weaker people to do his work and take their possessions. However, since the conqueror may be threatened by a later comer he usually cloaks his economic motives with sanctimonious expressions of morality and justice. The capacity of the human mind to fool itself is infinite.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor dc:publisher

Oberlin College Masters Theses

Year dc:date

1939

Author dc:creator

• Ottinger, Paul

Contributors dc:contributor

• ,

• Native American Studies
• Native Americans
• History
• American History
• 19th century
• Cherokee
• Georgia
• United States
• Indian
• tribal
• sovereignty

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• unrestricted
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Language dc:language

English

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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=obgrad1371025237

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