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Is there anywhere America has conquered and successfully Yankified that wasn't "we killed all the Indians to within a rounding...

Anonymous asked: Is there anywhere America has conquered and successfully Yankified that wasn't "we killed all the Indians to within a rounding error"?

I mean, define your terms, even in conditions of total friendly peace, European diseases decimated natives, or I guess inverse-decimated them, killing 9 in 10, all the wars and general postapocalyptic scrambling come on top of that

in the PNW the wars were more shows of force than exterminations and yielded mostly-respected-since treaties that left tribes on land near where they’d been encountered with economic claims that approximated how they’d lived before, that might be the closest, or maybe Alaska or Hawai’i or Samoa depending how far you wanna stretch “Indians”