How many here knew that George Washington ordered slaughter of Indians during Revolutionary War?

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17. I tried to find something short for you that would be encompassing

And I think these two essays (about nine pages each) are a really good primer for what Natives were dealing with when Europeans arrived and what happened after. If you read only one of them, I highly recommend James Merrell's on the "Indian's New World".

This link is to a pdf file of a textbook excerpt, just so you're not surprised.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwibkr-jsq79AhUDN0QIHfkqDaAQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fconcordiaprepschool.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F06%2FThe-Indians-Old_New-World.pdf&usg=AOvVaw377co_lcr_bUCxk-YflqM_

They're both incredibly good reading. I read Merrell's work on the topic some time ago, and he really helped give a perspective adjustment. Yes, the Europeans called it the New World, but for Native populations, it was a new world for them, too, and upended everything they had known before.

One of my, "I never thought of that" things while reading him was the idea that disease wiped out collective cultural memory, because so many elders died to it before they could pass their knowledge on. That whole era is a mess.