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Voltaire2

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2. The treaty took Minnesota. It wasn't given.
Wed Jan 10, 2024, 03:35 PM
Jan 2024

We routinely erase the colonization and genocide of indigenous people and the theft of their lands using language like “under the treaties that gave”, as if somehow the treaty had agency rather than the government and its armed forces.

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