America’s Long War with Nikhil Pal Singh
The Dig
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Is the United States Founded in Freedom or Slavery?
We can't reconcile that contradiction in any kind of definitive way, as much as people might want to. There's a relationship there that has at least been acknowledged and avowed as part of the ongoing struggle to make a more perfect union. But when it comes to native americans, an indigenous people in the history of settler colonialism, there is a much more a blanket refusal,. A kind of re ife return to the sort of the metaphors and imagery and kind of modes of thinking that are associated with savage war.
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