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That American Indian nations have survived into the 21st century should be an occasion for celebration, given how truly close Native America came to a total obliteration. A combination of disease, vicious colonial warfare and the use of education as a weapon to “kill the Indian, save the man” had b...

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में प्रकाशित:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas,
मुख्य लेखक: Mackay, James
स्वरूप: Article ou chapitre numérique
भाषा:Anglais
प्रकाशित: European journal of American studies 2022
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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सारांश:That American Indian nations have survived into the 21st century should be an occasion for celebration, given how truly close Native America came to a total obliteration. A combination of disease, vicious colonial warfare and the use of education as a weapon to “kill the Indian, save the man” had by the beginning of the 19th century reduced the number of people in the United States willing to claim Native ancestry in the census to just 250,000. (There were, of course, many more, but Indian b...