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Well, there were some issues with genocide between then and now that cut down on the number of example I can give you and inherently limit them to places far fr
by AlotOfReading 4y ago
Well, there were some issues with genocide between then and now that cut down on the number of example I can give you and inherently limit them to places far from major population centers. There are a lot of places all over the country with fairly continuous habitation records that abruptly terminate in the colonial period. The Southwest broadly managed to retain a higher degree of independence than most other parts of the continent until the 20th century partly as a result of that remoteness and more organized military responses.
- ido 4y agoI think you’re arguing past each other. Nobody (I hope at least) disputed European settlers treated the native Americans horribly. The argument was that in many places in Europe it’s literally unremarkable that people live in houses significantly older than the mentioned 1910 specimen in DC (my completely unremarkable apartment building in Berlin was built around the same time and nobody thinks of it as significant in any way & I know multiple people in Austria and Germany living in houses built in the 1800s and earlier). While Native Americans built structures before colonizations the number of Americans currently living in such is negligibly small.