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Native american conquest7/4/2023 Acre by acre, the dispossession of native peoples made the US a transcontinental power. Their tenuous grasp of the subject is regrettable if unsurprising, given that the conquest of the continent is both essential to understanding the rise of the US and deplorable. They perhaps recognise Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears, but few can recall the details and even fewer think that those events are central to US history. Many Americans are only vaguely familiar with the story of how this happened. Between 1776 and the present, the United States seized some 1.5 billion acres from North America’s native peoples, an area 25 times the size of the United Kingdom.
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