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The Conquest Of The American West
The apotheosis and popularization of the American West has left an indelible and lamentable stain upon the historical record of the United States for both European and Native Americans. Moreover, this revisionist history has obfuscated the objective reality of the American West. Relations between European and Native Americans have been vexed by this miscarriage of justice all the way through the present era. In this fallacious and farcical narrative of rugged individual European Americans conquering and enlightening the “Wild West” (Major Problems, 55) remains the tragic ramifications of American imperialism. This ruthless conquest left a wanton trail of depredation and destruction from which the autochthonous peoples of North America could not recover from.
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