"Despite the rapid onslaught of assimilationist policies like boarding schools, however, Indians adapted, as they have since time immemorial... Paradoxically, white people managed to learn almost nothing about Indians. Instead, they clung to mythologies created by other white people... as destined for extinction, or food for play acting an imagined past to enrich america's illusions of exceptionalism..."
— Dec 15, 2025 03:33AM
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