In Murder State by Brendan Lindsay, it illustrates how the portrayal of Native Americans as savages was used by European-Americans to prove themselves as a higher race in the social hierarchy and to rationalize their entitlement to the land and resources that waited from them in the west. The whites that were greatly influenced by the Manifest Destiny thought of themselves as the chosen people of God to usurp the lands in the west occupied by the “savage” and “uncivilized” Natives. White supremacy influenced by settler colonialism and racial formation made it possible for the whites to establish the belief that Natives and Mexican Americans were undeserving of the land and must be taken over by the civilized United States. It led Americans to enslave Natives in California similar to chattel slavery in the South where the Natives were considered as “disposable unfree laborers” and were traded and sold like goods by white employers or
In Murder State by Brendan Lindsay, it illustrates how the portrayal of Native Americans as savages was used by European-Americans to prove themselves as a higher race in the social hierarchy and to rationalize their entitlement to the land and resources that waited from them in the west. The whites that were greatly influenced by the Manifest Destiny thought of themselves as the chosen people of God to usurp the lands in the west occupied by the “savage” and “uncivilized” Natives. White supremacy influenced by settler colonialism and racial formation made it possible for the whites to establish the belief that Natives and Mexican Americans were undeserving of the land and must be taken over by the civilized United States. It led Americans to enslave Natives in California similar to chattel slavery in the South where the Natives were considered as “disposable unfree laborers” and were traded and sold like goods by white employers or