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Native America Calling: The Louisiana Purchase and its legacy on Native peoples
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
The Louisiana Purchase: Its legacy 220 years later
This month marks 220 years since the ratification of the Louisiana Purchase.
In one fell swoop, the United States doubled in size, adding much of the land between the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. It was also the moment when colonial powers embraced the momentum of westward expansion that ushered in Manifest Destiny, the Indian Removal Act, and other actions that favored European settlement at the expense of the land’s original inhabitants.
Guests on Native America Calling
Patty Ferguson Bonhee (Pointe-au-Chien), director of the Indian Legal Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law at Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University
Dr. Laura Kelley, professor of history at Tulane University
Jonathan Rohrer, tribal historic preservation officer for the Caddo Nation
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