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It was an incredible era of violence, greed, audacity, sentimentality, undirected exuberance, and an almost reverential attitude toward the ideal of personal freedom for those who already had it. During that time the culture and civilization of the American Indian was destroyed.”
David Treuer • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff
Pushed off their “permanent” lands, Native Americans moved yet again. Indian Country was successively whittled down until it had been reduced to its southern tip, present-day Oklahoma. The territory’s population, drawn from all over the map, spoke to the wrenching dislocations of the nineteenth century. By 1879, it contained Cherokees, Choctaws, Ch
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
The growth of the settler population was tied to another event in North America: the extraordinary depopulation of the land’s indigenous inhabitants. The size of that depopulation is up for debate. It’s hard to know how many Indians inhabited North America before Europeans arrived. Five million for the area now covered by the contiguous United Stat
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
His seven-year-old brain fires and rewires, building arborized axons, dendrites, those tiny spreading trees.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
