Land sales funding the treasury drove US genocidal policy

Evidence

In this US system, unique among colonial powers, land became the most important exchange commodity for the accumulation of capital and building of the national treasury. To understand the genocidal policy of the US government, the centrality of land sales in building the economic base of the US wealth and power must be seen. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 309

Categorization

• XREF: Explains why Indigenous removal was structurally necessary: it fed the national economic engine. — connects to: US administrations pursued documented genocidal policies in four distinct periods — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 30; Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 229; Early federal land administration was chronically underfunded and poorly run — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 553
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 309