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Over the process 3 centuries, American settlers helped to create the richest, strongest kingdom in human heritage, at the same time they killed and displaced hundreds of thousands. This groundbreaking paintings indicates that American background is outlined by means of settler colonialism, delivering a compelling framework wherein to appreciate its upward thrust to worldwide dominance.
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As gift giving was a critical aspect of indigenous diplomacy, the exchange of captives could serve to mitigate conflict. While Europeans did not introduce violence and militarism, already well ensconced within Indian cultures, colonialism did profoundly intensify indigenous violence. Colonial violence functioned in the context of the demands of a globalizing market economy. 10 Competition among Indians for access to weapons, to gain a foothold in the global marketplace, or merely to avoid becoming slaves themselves, dramatically accelerated the pace and scale of colonial violence.
Indians as well as Hispanics on the American borderlands also conducted brutal attacks to further their self-interest. They targeted rival tribes as well as settlers, and these assaults were often both indiscriminate and atrocious. Indigenous violence “played into allegations of savagery” and thereby served to justify retribution and removal policies. ” As with any serious psychological issue, however, ignoring the problem will not make it go away. 88 Psychological drives and conditions such as trauma, denial, repression, projection, fantasy, guilt, rationalization, narcissism, victimization, and others permeate the history of colonialism and therefore must be considered, however imperfectly, in any effort to gain a comprehensive understanding.
In the case of the United States, “There was, quite simply, no way to make a complete identity without Indians,” Phlip Deloria explains. ”95 Considerable psychic gymnastics arise from the contradictions involved in cleansing the land of the indigenes while appropriating their desirable characteristics within the maw of the dominant culture, all the while eliding the genocidal past. The colonizer’s claims of indigeneity and authenticity require long-term effort but also entail “a cognitive dissonance, a gap between knowledge and belief,” a repression of knowledge.