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How Did The American Indians Vanish

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In the nineteenth-century, many people believed that American Indians were “vanishing” or they were dying out. People believed this claim because they thought that American Indians could not adapt to modern times and their population was dropping significantly but it proved to be false. There are some sources that believe that they did vanish and there are others that do not. American Indians did not “vanish”, there population dropped, but many wanted to believe that they were becoming extinct so that the United States would have full control of the West.
There are sources that believe that American Indians were becoming extinct in the late 1800’s. One document that supports this idea is Lewis Henry Morgan 's,
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