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[[File:GreenoughRescue.jpg|thumb|left|upright|''[[The Rescue (sculpture)|The Rescue]]'' sculpture stood outside the [[U.S. Capitol]] between 1853 and 1958. Commissioned by the [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. government]], its sculptor [[Horatio Greenough]] wrote that it was "to convey the idea of the triumph of the whites over the savage tribes".<ref>[[Albert Boime|Boime, Albert]] (2004), [https://books.google.com/books?id=24Hgr0U8K3QC&dq=Rescue+AND+Greenough&pg=PA527 A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2: Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, 1815–1848], (Series: Social History of Modern Art); [[University of Chicago Press]], p. 527.</ref>]] | [[File:GreenoughRescue.jpg|thumb|left|upright|''[[The Rescue (sculpture)|The Rescue]]'' sculpture stood outside the [[U.S. Capitol]] between 1853 and 1958. Commissioned by the [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. government]], its sculptor [[Horatio Greenough]] wrote that it was "to convey the idea of the triumph of the whites over the savage tribes".<ref>[[Albert Boime|Boime, Albert]] (2004), [https://books.google.com/books?id=24Hgr0U8K3QC&dq=Rescue+AND+Greenough&pg=PA527 A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2: Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, 1815–1848], (Series: Social History of Modern Art); [[University of Chicago Press]], p. 527.</ref>]] | ||
A justification for the policy of conquest and subjugation of the Indigenous people emanated from the stereotyped perceptions of Native Americans as "merciless Indian savages" (as described in the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=Out West|date=2000|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|page=96}}</ref> Sam Wolfson in '' | A justification for the policy of conquest and subjugation of the Indigenous people emanated from the stereotyped perceptions of Native Americans as "merciless Indian savages" (as described in the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=Out West|date=2000|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|page=96}}</ref> Sam Wolfson in ''The Guardian'' writes, "The declaration's passage has often been cited as an encapsulation of the dehumanizing attitude toward Indigenous Americans that the US was founded on."<ref>{{cite news |title=Facebook labels declaration of independence as 'hate speech' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/facebook-declaration-of-independence-hate-speech |access-date=August 7, 2019 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> | ||
Native American nations on the plains in the west continued armed conflicts with the U.S. throughout the 19th century, through what were called generally [[American Indian Wars|Indian Wars]].<ref>Thornton, Russell (1990). [https://archive.org/details/americanindianho00thor_0 ''American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History since 1492'']. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 48. {{ISBN|978-0-8061-2220-5}}</ref> Notable conflicts in this period include the [[Dakota War of 1862|Dakota War]], [[Great Sioux War of 1876|Great Sioux War]], [[Snake War]], [[Colorado War]], and [[Texas-Indian Wars]]. Expressing the frontier anti-Indian sentiment, Theodore Roosevelt believed the Indians were destined to vanish under the pressure of white civilization, stating in an 1886 lecture: | Native American nations on the plains in the west continued armed conflicts with the U.S. throughout the 19th century, through what were called generally [[American Indian Wars|Indian Wars]].<ref>Thornton, Russell (1990). [https://archive.org/details/americanindianho00thor_0 ''American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History since 1492'']. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 48. {{ISBN|978-0-8061-2220-5}}</ref> Notable conflicts in this period include the [[Dakota War of 1862|Dakota War]], [[Great Sioux War of 1876|Great Sioux War]], [[Snake War]], [[Colorado War]], and [[Texas-Indian Wars]]. Expressing the frontier anti-Indian sentiment, Theodore Roosevelt believed the Indians were destined to vanish under the pressure of white civilization, stating in an 1886 lecture: | ||