"North American" Indigenous Nationhood
It is important to learn about how all the indigenous groups of the so-called Americas felt the attacks of European Colonialism. Please visit this link here: https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states be warned many of the documentaries coming from the History Channel contain a ton of inaccuracies, yet that link is accurate. From the time Europeans arrived on American shores, the frontier—the edge territory between white man’s civilization and the untamed natural world—became a shared space of vast, clashing differences that led the U.S. government to authorize over 1,500 wars, attacks and raids on Indians, the most of any country in the world against its indigenous people. By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 indigenous people remained, a sharp decline from the estimated 5 million to 15 million living in North America when Columbus arrived in 1492. Colonialism has not ended. This post has the purpose of explaining t...
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