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Merciless Indian Savages | Episode 1

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First America

Native people have been written out of the American story, but without us you don’t know what happened. This summer the United States will celebrate t 
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We’ve all been told the American Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But that's not what the Declaration of Independence says. According to our founders, in their own words, what they were most upset about was Native Americans. How did we all miss that? Rebecca sits down with historian Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) to talk about how hunger for Indigenous land drove the Revolution. Welcome to First America, the true story of how the United States came to be, and how our current political moment was 250 years in the making.

Resources:
- Dig into more of Ned Blackhawk's scholarship here

 
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