My friend Tom sent me a link to a year-by-year mapping of Indian removal in the U.S. The map brings home how Indian lands were taken by treaty or conquest, and how pitifully small (and often uninhabitable) those Indian lands are today.
Here’s the link: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJxrTzfG2bo>. The film only lasts about a minute.
I’ve wondered why President Trump decided to expedite the Dakota Access Pipeline. Perhaps he was irritated that the lowest percentage of his vote anywhere in America was a county on an Indian reservation in the Dakotas.
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