Five hundred years later, Native peoples are still fighting to protect their lands and their rights to exist as distinct political communities and individuals.An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2015). This test reflects the seeming inevitability of US extent and power, its destiny, with an implication that the continent had previously been a land without people I call this a Rorschach test of unconscious 'manifest destiny,' embedded in the minds of nearly everyone in the United States and around the world. When called on this, students are embarrassed because they know better. What became independent in 1783 were the thirteen British colonies hugging the Atlantic shore. Invariably most draw the approximate present shape of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific-the continental territory not fully appropriated until a century after independence. I ask students to quickly draw a rough outline of the United States at the time it gained independence from Britain.
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