Page 18 - Confronting Race Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1815 - 1915

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a different experience than did those men. It also indicates that, in the
end, women who saw Indians more clearly and related to them more
intimately than most men, were still unable to f r ee themselves from colo­
nialist attitudes. Although some gained enough objectivity to criticize
the imperialism of Manifest Destiny , they had neither the insight nor
the power to bring it down. Thus, in the final analysis, Anglo women
helped perpetuate racial problems that otherwise might have lessened.

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