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Book Tries to Show how US Democracy Hurt Native Americans

Associated Press

   ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO - A new book by a noted historian attempts to
   show how expanding American democracy hurt Native Americans in the
   early days of the nation and how tribes viewed the young United States
   as an entity seeking to erase them from existence.

   University of Oregon history professor Jeffrey Ostler's just-released
   "Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the
   American Revolution and Bleeding Kansas" argues that the emergence of
   American democracy depended on the taking of Native lands.

   Leaders of the fledgling nation also felt that removing Native
   Americans from the ancestral land -- by any means necessary -- was key
   to allowing an expanding and poorer white population to move west, the
   historian writes.
   

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