The U.S. military repeatedly displaced indigenous peoples to build bases, impoverishing them

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land; Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 229; Colonists survived by seizing what Indigenous peoples had already built. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 113 (+2 more)

Related

• Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion (similarity 0.87)
• Frontier bases functioned as the advance agent of US land conquest. (similarity 0.84)
• Military base land is frequently acquired by outright seizure rather than purchase (similarity 0.84)
• Colonists survived by seizing what Indigenous peoples had already built. (similarity 0.83)
• U.S. military base creation has repeatedly displaced indigenous island peoples into poverty. (similarity 0.81)
• Displacing indigenous island peoples to build bases was a systemic U.S. pattern (similarity 0.80)
• US overseas military expansion has displaced indigenous peoples at least eighteen times (similarity 0.80)
• US conquest of the Sioux followed the classic stages of colonialism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The U.S. removed Aleutian islanders during WWII and prevented their return afterward. #exemplifies (0.60)
• Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion #corroborates (0.50) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 229
• Frontier forts enabled U.S. westward expansion into Native lands #expands (0.50)
• US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land #expands (0.40)
• Colonists survived by seizing what Indigenous peoples had already built. #corroborates (0.40) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 113