'Nits Make Lice': The final eradication of Native Americans and their wild places
Eliminationism in America, Part 5: After pandemics did most of their dirty work, European settlers considered wiping out the remnant as a simple matter of Manifest Destiny.
Part 5 of 12. [Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4.]
For much of their early history on the American continent, white Europeans saw the Enemy as being Wilderness: the implacable, alien, deadly swamp whose subjugation it was their mission to impose.
The European conception of wilderness which white immigrants brought to the Ameri…
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