Settler states resort to expulsion when indigenous populations resist cultural reengineering

Evidence

Their experience strongly demonstrates, however, the strength, resilience, and viscosity of indigenous cultures and their ability to renew themselves and to resist, contain, and adapt Western imports. While the rejectionist response to the West is impossible, the Kemalist response has been unsuccessful. If non-Western societies are to modernize, they must do it their own way not the Western way and, emulating Japan, build upon and employ their own traditions, institutions, and values. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 418 (#complicates, via linked claim)

There is always a hard core of resistance in that process, but the culture of resistance also includes accommodations to the colonizing social order, including absorbing Christianity into already existing religious practices, using the colonizer’s language, and intermarrying with settlers and, more importantly, with other oppressed groups, such as escaped African slaves. Without the culture of resistance, surviving Indigenous peoples under US colonization would have been eliminated through individual assimilation. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 189 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: American settlement was a history of dispossessing native peoples — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 273; Settler colonialism aims to terminate peoples’ existence, not individuals — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 17; Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Indigenous cultures resist, contain, and adapt Western imports rather than being replaced #complicates (0.75) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 418
• Indigenous survival required a culture of resistance that blended assimilation and defiance. #complicates (0.73) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 189