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>They saw the land was lightly populated and took it. This framing is passive and hides the history that our own government even admits to[1]. The west wasn't
by omegaworks 3y ago
>They saw the land was lightly populated and took it.
This framing is passive and hides the history that our own government even admits to[1]. The west wasn't simply lightly populated. There were state-sponsored and well documented extermination campaigns that cleared the land for white settlement.
1. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/what-happened-to-the-bison.htm https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/what-happened-to-the-bison....
- tick_tock_tick 3y agoThe West, other then the coastline itself, is lightly populated now. It was absolutely lightly populated back then.
- Tostino 3y agoThen why did we feel the need to clear the land of them? cough genocide cough
- omegaworks 3y ago> It was absolutely lightly populated back then. What makes you say that? Some studying the California natives put their population at 300,000, some all the way up to 1.5MM and that's after they were hit by waves of infectious disease.