![]() People lived there, and had for thousands of years. Goff/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)The problem, of course, was that the "unmapped" territory wasn't empty. ![]() Sitting Bull, also known as Tatanka Iyotake to his people, became chief of the entire Sioux nation in 1867. And the future for Americans meant westward expansion." ![]() Brands, of the University of Texas at Austin and author of Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West. "The United States was a country that essentially had no past," asserts H.W. On the other hand, deeply disturbing because of the damage the myth has provoked on the landscape and in the hearts, minds and lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people."ĭeverell says the roots of the myth have to do with a very American idea of independence and self-reliance that persist to this day. "And so the myth is, on the one hand, triumphant. "It has to do with conquering nature and conquering the peoples that are encountered in the American West," says William Deverell, professor of history at the University of Southern California. ![]() It has become a tool to explain a political ideology, and a way to sugar-coat the expulsion and mass murder of Indigenous peoples.
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