Oh, so you were raising awareness of the fact that natives were exterminated. Good work then, all of the zero people here who were unaware of that are now more educated thanks to your rhetoric.
Sadly, it actually shows it pretty well if you watch the path of the places the green invaders annexed/stole/acquired/liberated, though TX, NM, NV, AZ, CA, FL, and elsewhere were already well underway by other folks before the greens arrived.
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I’d post the “crying Indian” animated gif here except that just makes too light of the situation.
I’m at a loss on how to think about it all sometimes, especially when I know my own Wyoming and Wisconsin (and Montana) ancestors were probably completely complicit in it or at least more than happy to push “savages” off of lands.
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Some of my ancestors did some horrifying things I know of, and I’m sure there’s a lot that never got passed along. One notable one wound up dead with an axe in his head after a bloody robbery when they didn’t quite agree on how to split up the goods. And he was part of the roving gangs of bushwhackers who were previously soldiers in the Civil War fighting to preserve slavery. The history of the US has been an ongoing nightmare of white supremacist ignorance and evil from its founding, and we live as part of its legacy, which is why we should be all the more motivated to repudiate and resist that monstrous evil.
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That’s a story.
A Step-grandpa of my grandma, who was down in Texas, got shot after a card game where someone said he cheated… I’d always kind of wished he was a blood relation just for the story.
Erk…
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From sufficiently far away, all animations resemble epidemiological illustrations.
[Is this Somebody’s Law? It ought to be Somebody’s Law.]
This would be more interesting if it didn’t use such anachronistic boundaries. If you want to track the population of America overtime rather than projecting manifest destiny dreams by using a modern political map and greying out areas not yet under the control of America, have the boundaries change over time too. As it is it completely ignores Native American populations as noted above, and it also ignores the settlement of all the land west of the Mississippi that was settled by people arriving from the West and South.
This an excellent book that actually gets at the question of what was live in the New World like before Columbus:
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