Manifest Destiny and the Indian Wars

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Now Playing: Woodie Guthrie, “This Land Is Your Land,” 1940

Opening Day at the Centennial Exposition, May 1876

Native American mannequins at the Centennial Expo, 1876

Exploring the Indian Exhibit at the Expo, 1876

U.S. General George Armstrong Custer; newspaper headlines, July 1876

Emanuel Leutze, “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way,” mural, 1861 (U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.)

John Gast, “Spirit of the Frontier,” 1872

Mexican losses after the Mexican-American War, 1848

Paths of Indian Removal, 1830s

“Indian hunters” championed in a Sacramento newspaper, ca. 1850

“[On the Reservation] Principal Chiefs of the Arapaho,” engraving, 1860

Buffalo bones, 1870

Photo of Chief Crazy Horse [allegedly], 1877

“The Indian Barrier,” Battles of the Indian Wars, 1860-1890

Custer and his Army, 1874

Depiction of 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn by Lakota Chief Red Horse

Bones of the dead at Little Bighorn

Mass grave for the dead at Wounded Knee, 1890

Stage reenactment of Custer’s “Last Stand,” 1905

Otto Becker, “Custer’s Last Fight,” 1896