Merciless Indian Savages | Episode 1

We’ve all been told the American Revolution was fought over
taxation and representation. But that's not what the Declaration
of Independence says. According to our founders, in their own
words, what they were most upset about was Native Americans. How
did we all miss that? Rebecca sits down with historian Ned
Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) to talk about how hunger for
Indigenous land drove the Revolution. Welcome to First America,
the true story of how the United States came to be, and how our
current political moment was 250 years in the making.

Resources:
- Dig into more of Ned Blackhawk's scholarship here


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