#1252 Taking the first steps of American imperialism (Native People)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 February 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Air Date: 2/25/2019
Today we take a look at the process of systematic, government-sponsored genocide against the native peoples of North America that kicked off the wealth-accumulating, territory-expanding American empire we know and love today
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SHOW NOTES
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz describes the process of coming to understand that there is an alternate history of the United States and explains how she tried to convey that new understanding in her book "An Indigenous People's History of the United States."
Ch. 2: American expansion and violence against Native Americans - @BackStory - Air Date: 01-19-2018
Ed talks with historian Benjamin Madley about the devastating impact of the Gold Rush on California’s native tribes – and how both government officials and everyday citizens justified enslaving and killing native peoples.
We explore how the media discusses the issue of BDS and the broader topic of Palestinian liberation with guest Steven Salaita.
Ch. 4: Understanding the origins of scalp hunting and "redskins" - Empire Files - Air Date 11-25-15
Abby Martin interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, renowned indigenous scholar and activist, about her most recent book "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States."
Ch. 5: Paul Frymer on the building of an American empire - The Dig from @jacobinmag - Air Date 1-30-18
We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, have been violently removed. Almost everyone knows this — yet it’s rarely mentioned in stories that Americans tell themselves about who we are as a country and how we got here.
Ch. 6: America's Distribution of Violence - @Intercepted w: @JeremyScahill - Air Date 2-14-18
Jeremy Scahill talks with Nikhil Singh, professor of social and cultural analysis and history at New York University,about his new book "Race and America’s Long War.”
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| 1:08.6 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast, which I see as |
| 1:14.3 | part three in a series on Native people that I've been working on. |
| 1:18.5 | I just didn't have an invention to anyone that it was a series. |
| 1:21.7 | So part one was Columbus Day episode from last year, that's number 1216, followed by |
| 1:27.9 | part two, looking at the legacy of Thanksgiving, that was number 1230. |
| 1:33.0 | And now we have part three moving on chronologically to westward expansion in which we shall learn |
| 1:38.1 | about the process of systematic government-sponsored genocide against the Native peoples that kicked |
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