Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence | Hingham Historical Society's Native Homeland Settler Colonialism

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Summary Professor Anderson discussed how 19th-century community leaders and historians, in zealously positioning New England as the cradle of Anglo-Saxon American culture, made the baseless claim that the area’s indigenous inhabitants had become extinct. Such “erasure” would be used to refute Indian claims to land and rights.

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