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Reason 3: Assimilation! In the mid-1900s the US drove Native communities into poverty to break up and move them to the coasts for jobs—and assimilation! The idea was to solve the ‘Indian problem’ by erasing Native identity! COOL COOL!

Reason 4: Boarding schools! Another violent assimilationist shitshow! This one’s been particularly impactful in #Australia, with the stolen generation.

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