U.S. military base creation has repeatedly displaced indigenous island peoples into poverty.

Evidence

That the Navy would expel indigenous peoples from both Diego Garcia and Bikini is no coincidence. Around the world, often on islands and in other isolated locations, the U.S. military long displaced indigenous groups to create bases. In most cases the displaced populations have ended up deeply impoverished, like the Chagossians and Bikinians. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 196

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• SEED: A map-based, systemic project could trace all U.S. bases built on displaced indigenous land — a powerful data-driven angle for an essay.

Related

• Displacing indigenous island peoples to build bases was a systemic U.S. pattern (similarity 0.92)
• US overseas military expansion has displaced indigenous peoples at least eighteen times (similarity 0.82)
• The Bikini islanders were displaced with no real choice in the matter (similarity 0.81)
• The military displaces populations to avoid dealing with local people entirely. (similarity 0.81)
• US bases on Puerto Rico and Okinawa form colonial relationships that impoverish both islands. (similarity 0.81)
• Military bases concentrate environmental harm in poorer non-Western communities (similarity 0.81)
• U.S. military base environmental harms fall disproportionately on colonized, poorer people of color (similarity 0.81)
• US bases displaced Vieques residents and gutted its local economy (similarity 0.80)
• Overseas bases cause environmental damage, crime, displacement, and colonial relations (similarity 0.80)
• US base-building destroyed Okinawa’s farmland economy and left its people in poverty. (similarity 0.80)
• Base site selection tracks landowner powerlessness more than strategic need. (similarity 0.80)
• The U.S. military repeatedly displaced indigenous peoples to build bases, impoverishing them (similarity 0.80)
• Bases are sited where land acquisition is easiest, on marginalized populations. (similarity 0.79)
• The US relocated over 3,200 Okinawans to Bolivia with broken promises (similarity 0.79)
• At least eighteen documented base displacements outside the US occurred since the 1800s. (similarity 0.79)