Jeffrey Ostler

The removal of Indigenous people was a national priority with broad consensus.

Most recent scholarship, while supporting the view that the policy was vicious, has not addressed the question of genocide.

The truth about policies of Native American removal.

Native communities’ vulnerability to epidemics is not a historical accident, but a direct result of oppressive policies and ongoing colonialism.

The revolution wasn’t only an effort to establish independence from the British—it was also a push to preserve slavery and suppress Native American resistance.

Against the backdrop of the Revolution, American Indians recognized a looming threat to their very existence.