Dessalines"They're the same picture"
TheReturnOfPEB“Indian reservations” are old concentration camps
then German concentration camps
and the strategic hamlet program was retro concentration camps.
and ICE detention centers are the new wave of concentration camp.
ManalithI get the sentiment, and by no means are the reservations good or something that should’ve been how it played out, but I do feel like putting them on the same level as ICE centers and concentration camps downplays just how bad those latter two really are/were.
I get the feeling you’ve not been told about all the death and disease Native Americans experienced in reservations, especially at the beginning. The only real difference is reservations did not have buildings…they were just wastelands.
Can the Native Americans freely leave the reservations?
Today? Yeah.
Back then? No.
Nakoichi [they/them]putting them on the same level as ICE centers and concentration camps
You’re right they were way fucking worse than that.
redchertThere were also white towns that made money selling alcoholic beverages and drugs to native reservations. Usually long periods of starvation cause high rates of diabetes (amongst other symptoms) in a populace - today the lakota people have one of the highest percentage of diabetes per capita in the world.
That is literally what Rapid City is built on.
Thank you for this knowledge, I had no idea that reservations were this bad.
Would you happen to have any books/resource recommendations for where to learn more about the actual Native American history?
The reservation were designed with the eventually extinction of native americans in mind, yes. Its just much slower and more deniable “social murder”