Dette interaktive kartet fra USA minner umiskjennelig om Israel/Palestina This interactive map, produced by University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt to accompany his new book West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, offers a time-lapse vision of the transfer of Indian land between 1776 and 1887. Between 1776 and 1887, the United States seized over 1.5 billion acres from Americas indigenous people by treaty and executive order. Explore how in this interactive map of every Native American land cession during that period. As blue “Indian homelands” disappear, small red areas appear, indicating the establishment of reservations. The project’s source data is a set of maps produced in 1899 by the Bureau of American Ethnology. The B.A.E. was a research unit of the Smithsonian that published and collected anthropological, archaeological, and linguistic research on the culture of North American Indians, as the nineteenth century drew to a close. invasionofamerica.ehistory.org Ayn Rand: [The Native Americans] didnt have any rights to the land and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using.... What was it they were fighting for, if they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their right to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or maybe a few caves above it. Any white person who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Ayn_Rand#Native_American_Quote
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