Unacknowledged wars against Indigenous peoples preceded global US total war

Evidence

Following World War II, the United States was at war with much of the world, just as it was at war with the Indigenous peoples of North America in the nineteenth century. This was total war, demanding that the enemy surrender unconditionally or face annihilation. Perhaps it was inevitable that the earlier wars against Indigenous peoples, if not acknowledged and repudiated, ultimately would include the world. According to the origin narrative, the United States was born of rebellion against oppression—against empire—and thus is the product of the first anticolonial revolution for national liberation. The narrative flows from that fallacy: the broadening and deepening of democracy; the Civil War and the ensuing “second revolution,” which ended slavery; the twentieth-century mission to save Europe from itself—twice; and the ultimately triumphant fight against the scourge of communism, with the United States inheriting the difficult and burdensome task of keeping order in the world. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 37

Categorization

• XREF: Links the Indigenous wars to US foreign policy, echoing the reader’s wider framing of US history. — connects to: US conquest of the Sioux followed the classic stages of colonialism — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 480; The UN genocide convention applies to US-Indigenous relations since 1988 — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 21; Indigenous self-defense triggered an unauthorized genocidal counteroffensive by Jackson — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 235 (+7 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 37

Broader Connections

• US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land #expands (0.85)
• US conquest of the Sioux followed the classic stages of colonialism #exemplifies (0.80) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 480
• California’s gold rush exterminated over one hundred thousand Indigenous people by 1870 #exemplifies (0.80) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 322
• Indigenous self-defense triggered an unauthorized genocidal counteroffensive by Jackson #exemplifies (0.75) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 235
• Jefferson bought Louisiana without consulting the Indigenous nations who lived there #expands (0.75) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 227
• The UN genocide convention applies to US-Indigenous relations since 1988 #corroborates (0.70) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 21