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Congress appropriates funds for the "civilization" of Native people.

Date: 1802

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By 1845, the phrase "Manifest Destiny" will have emerged as a label for this strategy of settler colonialism, referring to the belief that white settler-colonists are "destined" to become "stewards" and "tamers" of Indigenous lands and people who are westward of the national borders.