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14 An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

the United States as a colonialist settler-state, one that, like colonial­

ist European states, crushed and subjugated the original civilizations

in the territories it now rules. Indigenous peoples, now in a colonial

relationship with the United States, inhabited and thrived for mil­

lennia before they were displaced to fragmented reservations and

economically decimated.

This is a history of the United States.