Unexpected Places Summary

America was growing up like how the buildings were built, more and more, better and better. Phillip J. Deloris, author of Playing Indian and Indians in Unexpected Places, had once praised on Frederick E. Hoxie and Jay T. Nelson book, Lewis and Clark and the Indian country. He said the book was “placing the expedition in the context of long environmental, social, and political histories, Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country retells the familiar stories in light of Indian experiences and survivals. This compelling and important collection marks a coming full circle to the Indian people who greeted the explorers’ foray into ‘new’ land.” According the book , Hoxie and Nelson illustrated the Manifest Destiny with the Lewis and Clark expedition, they demonstrated that the Manifest Destiny led the Native Americans as well as other outsiders moved forward and hoped bigger. Ranching, missionaries and teachers, and fur trade had …show more content…
Because of the constant “new” change in that short amount of time, the Native Americans required to obtain some new skills in order to stay in their reservation land. Changing these new conditions was hard, the Blackfeet Indian Reservation families “not only raised sufficient potatoes for their own use, but had a surplus to sell” (251). These surplus had contributed a lot on Manifest Destiny because the Native Americans were able to have more money to move forward and to expand further. “The Blackfeet since then attracted the attention of thousands of the industrial program outlined for the Indians of this reservations,” and these industrial programs helped to boost the economy and to advocate a better home and farm equipment for the Native American, in which helped the Manifest Destiny extend across the Indian