Which Chosen People?: Manifest Destiny Meets the Sioux as Seen by Frank Fiske, Frontier Photographer

by Robert Dodge

The belief in American exceptionalism reached its apex during the 1800s and was expressed as a God-given passport called Manifest Destiny. Among its victims were Native Americans. The Sioux resisted, eventually in desperation resorting to Ghost Dancing and claiming that Indians, not the whites, were the chosen people. The military, political, and legal destruction of Indian culture provided precedent and justification for the empire building that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628940271
• ISBN13: 9781628940275
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Algora Publishing
• Length: 197 Pages