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"Cotton is right: In the 19th century, the United States bought large
chunks of land from European powers as it expanded south and west. What
he doesn’t acknowledge is that in buying that land, the United States
also took control of the native peoples—Sioux, Pawnee, Cheyenne, Crow,
Seminole, Apache, and Inuit, among many others—who were living on it.
And it did so without their consent. The only treaties that mattered
were with the distant governments selling the territories in question.
Since then, the notion that white governments can treat nonwhite peoples
as commodities—to be traded alongside the land on which they live—has
gone out of style. In 1960, amid movements for independence in Africa
and Asia, the United Nations General Assembly declared that “the
subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation
constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights.”"
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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