Native Americans: a new history
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The Importance of Jay's Treaty and the Louisiana Purchase in American History
The discourse of anti-indigenous it makes it into the Declaration of Independence which complains about the British crowns. The term frontier and merciless Indian savages are those terms that have antecedents in interior indigenous conflicts, says historian Andrew Keen. It's not just anti-monarchical or anti-imperial it's also anti-elite it's anti-restocratic people like Benjamin Franklin are initially held in suspicion by western Pennsylvania settler citizens as they increasingly become seen as a threat to them.
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