• This Thanksgiving, Give Thanks for American Colonialism

    In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson envisioned a peaceful and prosperous future for American Indians.
    “[I]n truth the ultimate point of rest & happiness for them is to let our settlements and theirs meet and blend together, to intermix and become one people, incorporating themselves with us as citizens of the US,” Jefferson wrote.
    Alas, the nineteenth century did not unfold as the author of the Declaration of Independence had hoped. U.S. federal agents lied, broke treaties and ma

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