US history centers fundamentally on control and commodification of land

Evidence

There is not occupation of territory, on the one hand, and independence of persons on the other. It is the country as a whole, its history, its daily pulsation that are contested, disfigured, in the hope of a final destruction. Under these conditions, the individual’s breathing is an observed, an occupied breathing. It is a combat breathing. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 223 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• 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; Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 223 (+3 more)

Related

• Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life (similarity 0.82)
• Land seizure through genocide, not technology, powered US expansion (similarity 0.80)
• Occupation contests the whole country and its history, not territory alone (similarity 0.79)

Library Connections

• US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land #exemplifies (0.85)

Broader Connections

• Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 223
• US overseas bases extend an ancient imperial strategy of encircling domination #expands (0.60)