The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

November 27, 2018 “Information Clearing House“ –  The United States has been at war every day since its founding, often covertly and often in several parts of the world at once. As ghastly as that sentence is, it still does not capture the full picture. Indeed, prior to its founding, what would become the United States was engaged—as it would continue to be for more than a century following—in internal warfare to piece together its continental territory. Even during the Civil War, both the Union and Confederate armies continued to war against the nations of the Diné and Apache, the Cheyenne and the Dakota, inflicting hideous massacres upon civilians and forcing their relocations. Yet when considering…

A new book by St Lucian researcher Sylvester Clauzel, Indigenous Peoples of St Lucia—Nou Se Kalinago, aims at debunking many of the most ignorant myths about the indigenous peoples of the region that persist so many centuries after early European travelers and settlers first invented them. Here are some excerpts from a recent review in the St Lucia Star:
“The Taino dominated the Greater Antilles by the time of the arrival of the Europeans around 1500 A.D.,” writes Clauzel. The second group of people called (and still call) themselves the Kalinago and began moving into the region around 600 A.D. “They were not raiders and savages as many historians described them but traders who also settled in the islands,” Clauzel’s book explains. This conclusion matches newer research which indicates that the Amerindian people of the islands were much more sophisticated than the simple savages that early Europeans painted…