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“The Army was, bottom line, an instrument of a settler colonial empire that was determined to convert Native lands into private property for mostly white settlers,” said Jeffrey Ostler, professor of history emeritus at the University of Oregon and author of “Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States From the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas.”
The US is good at whitewashing reality.
#Indigenous #Thanksgiving #Genocide #IndigenousJustice
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/28/army-native-american-heritage-month/Published at
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