2007
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.112.1.35
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Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War

Abstract: BRIAN DELAY IN THE SUMMER OF 1845, amid mounting concern that the United States and Mexico would go to war over Texas, the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin reported that a Comanche Indian force of "extraordinary magnitude" was preparing to descend upon the "weakened population" of northern Mexico. According to the editors, the whole of the Mexican north would soon be "engulfed in a terrible Indian war." This fact would "powerfully influence political relations" and "would have to be considered as a new element … Show more

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“…US Democrats led by President James K. Polk pointed to the Mexican inability to curb indigenous raids to justify the annexation of Texas and wage war on Mexico in the 1840s. 225 At a loss on how to control the borderlands, leaders of the still young republics looked to the recent past, emulating the Spanish colonizer they had fought only recently. Aware that the central government did not have enough resources to impose its will on the Llanos of Venezuela and eastern Colombia, Simón Bolívar encouraged the establishment of Catholic missions there.…”
Section: War and Peacementioning
confidence: 99%
“…US Democrats led by President James K. Polk pointed to the Mexican inability to curb indigenous raids to justify the annexation of Texas and wage war on Mexico in the 1840s. 225 At a loss on how to control the borderlands, leaders of the still young republics looked to the recent past, emulating the Spanish colonizer they had fought only recently. Aware that the central government did not have enough resources to impose its will on the Llanos of Venezuela and eastern Colombia, Simón Bolívar encouraged the establishment of Catholic missions there.…”
Section: War and Peacementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Americans perceived Mexicans as undeserving of the West’s vast resources as they appropriate more and more land through the 19th and 20th centuries (Limerick, 1987: 240, 243–244). Furthermore, the difficulty Mexico had defending its northern frontier from Comanche reinforced the perception that this territory should go to white Americans who could protect it (Delay, 2007: 36, 43; Greenberg, 2012: 21).…”
Section: Walt’s Claim Of Difference and The Imperial Gazementioning
confidence: 99%
“…60 Furthermore, the difficulty Mexico had defending its northern frontier from Native Americans led whites to see Mexico as an easy target, reinforcing the perception that Mexicans were an inferior people and that Mexican men, unable to protect their land and families, were less masculine than whites. 61 Comparatively, American men believed they could defeat the Native Americans, claiming that American settlement had secured Texas and that US expansion into Mexico would do the same there. 62 Whites characterized Africans much like Native Americans.…”
Section: Portraying Mexicans As Unmasculinementioning
confidence: 99%