Tyler Settlers Eradicate Caddo People & The Discovery Doctrine

Then American settlers, influenced by their own culture’s long history of warring with Native Americans, moved to modern-day East Texas from South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Empowered by their sense of racial superiority and validated by their Christian faith, southerners imported to the northernmost region of Tejas their dreams of accumulating incredible wealth using the relatively free labor of “subhuman” African peoples. What justified white settlers taking lands that did not belong to them?

The Catholic Church took most of the credit.