Manifest Destiny And The Relocation Of Native American Indians Topic Of American West Program At Colorado State University
Monday, July 13, 1998
FORT COLLINS--The American West Program presents "Manifest
Destiny and Indian Removal," a talk and slide show 7:30 p.m. July
14 in Room C146 Plant Science Building at Colorado State
University.
Valerie Sherer Mathes, professor in the department of social
science at City College of San Francisco, will discuss the
removal of America's Indians to remote western lands under the
policies of Manifest Destiny. Mathes will concentrate on the
removal policies of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, and
discuss removal in general with detailed examples of the Cherokee
tragedy.
Mathes, whose specialties include United States survey
courses, history of the American Indians, the American West and
California history, received her master's degree in history in
1965 from the University of New Mexico and her doctoral degree in
history in 1988 from Arizona State University. She has been a
faculty member at City College of San Francisco since 1967.
Mathes joins a series of speakers visiting campus this
summer to explore Western expansion under the program's theme,
"Manifest Destiny and the West to 1850." All programs begin at
7:30 p.m. in Room C146 Plant Science Building and are free and
open to the public.
In conjunction with the American West Program, the summer
exhibit of the Curfman Gallery in the Lory Student Center is
featuring the artwork of William Henry Jackson.
The remaining three events in the series are listed below.
* July 14 - "Manifest Destiny and Indian Removals," Valerie
Sherer Mathes, professor in the department of social science at
City College of San Francisco.
* July 21 - "Los Capitalistas: New Mexican Merchants and the
Santa Fe Trade," Susan Calafate Boyle, independent historian from
Fort Collins.
* July 28 - "The Western Hero and Manifest Destiny - Boone,
Crockett and Carson," Paul Hutton, history professor at the
University of New Mexico.
For more information on the American West Program, call
Harry Rosenberg in the history department at 491-5230.
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