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minus-squaremaplesaga@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoEspecially when they began trading in the fur trade for guns, they created their own little fiefdoms for hunting, which meant keeping other tribes off their land.
minus-squareoatscoop@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-23 months agoI do want to be clear: I am not excusing what was done to the Native Americans or any other native people by colonizers – it’s inexcusable. But regardless of good intentions: the “Noble Savage” myth is racism and it needs to die as it’s an erasure of agency.
Especially when they began trading in the fur trade for guns, they created their own little fiefdoms for hunting, which meant keeping other tribes off their land.
I do want to be clear: I am not excusing what was done to the Native Americans or any other native people by colonizers – it’s inexcusable.
But regardless of good intentions: the “Noble Savage” myth is racism and it needs to die as it’s an erasure of agency.