Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion

Evidence

Neither superior technology nor an overwhelming number of settlers made up the mainspring of the birth of the United States or the spread of its power over the entire world. Rather, the chief cause was the colonialist settler-state’s willingness to eliminate whole civilizations of people in order to possess their land. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 229

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s goal of hearing the Indigenous counter-narrative that inverts the standard technological-superiority explanation of US power. — connects to: US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land; Land sales funding the treasury drove US genocidal policy — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 309; US history centers fundamentally on control and commodification of land (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 229

Broader Connections

• US history centers fundamentally on control and commodification of land #exemplifies (0.90)
• US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land #expands (0.85)
• Land sales funding the treasury drove US genocidal policy #complicates (0.80) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 309