Book tries to show how U.S. democracy hurt Native Americans
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press
Published: August 25, 2019, 6:51pm
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This photo provided by the Yale University Press shows the book cover of "Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution and Bleeding Kansas," authored by University of Oregon history professor Jeffrey Ostler and released in June 2019. The new book by the noted historian attempts to show how expanding American democracy hurt Native Americans in the early days of the nation and how tribes viewed the young United States as an entity seeking to erase them from existence. (Courtesy of Yale University Press via AP)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new book by a noted historian attempts to show how expanding American democracy hurt Native Americans in the early days of the nation and how tribes viewed the young United States as an entity seeking to erase them from existence.
University of Oregon history professor Jeffrey Ostler’s just-released “Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution and Bleeding Kansas” argues that the emergence of American democracy depended on the taking of Native lands.
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