• maplesaga@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Especially when they began trading in the fur trade for guns, they created their own little fiefdoms for hunting, which meant keeping other tribes off their land.

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      4 months ago

      I do want to be clear: I am not excusing what was done to the Native Americans or any other native people by colonizers – it’s inexcusable.

      But the “Noble Savage” myth itself is racism and it needs to die.