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It Happened Here | Episode 3
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The American Revolution wasn’t just a fight for liberty. It was also a sprawling conflict with Indigenous nations over who would control the continent of North America. And to stake out their claim, the United States was willing to commit genocide. Rebecca talks to Maggie Blackhawk (Ojibwe) about how our country’s early treatment of Native Americans is the root of authoritarianism in the United States. Resources: - Jeffrey Ostler, " “To Extirpate the Indians”: An Indigenous Consciousness of Genocide in the Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes, 1750s–1810 ," The William and Mary Quarterly, by Thurman Wilkins - Rhiannon Koehler " Hostile Nations: Quantifying the…