Adopting white institutions and slavery did not shield Native nations from land seizure

Evidence

But adopting a republican form of government and operating plantations worked by slave labor would not be enough to protect Native Southerners. White citizens craved more land, and they would have it. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 491

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s case study: the Vann elite adapted to the settler model, yet origin-dating still framed them as expendable — showing the limits of assimilation as protection. — connects to: Southern white families’ land claims were founded on Native American removal — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 23