conquest

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• SOURCE: National Constitution Center
  11/17/2022
  

  Podcast: The Battle for the American West

  H.W. Brands, Lori Daggar and Lindsay Robertson join National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen to discuss new perspectives on the histories of conquest in the American west. 

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• 11/15/2020
  

  Reckoning with Marcus Whitman and the Memorialization of Conquest

  by Cassandra Tate

  The same period that saw the public affirmation of the Confederate Lost Cause myth saw a proliferation of monuments that portrayed the conquest of the indigenous people of the west as virtuous pioneering. The case of Marcus Whitman shows a national reckoning is in order.

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• SOURCE: SFist
  6/22/2020
  

  Who Was Junipero Serra, and Why Do Activists Want His Name Stripped From Institutions and His Statues Toppled?

  The architect of the Spanish Mission system in California has some defenders among historians, but Native American activists associate his legacy with genocide. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/15/2020
  

  Man Is Shot at Protest Over Statue of New Mexico’s Conquistador

  Tensions between persons with Hispanic and Native American ancestry in New Mexico have been crystallized in protests over a statue of a brutal Spanish conquistador.