“The Genocidal Foundation of the United States" A history of settler colonialism and genocidal war that forms the foundation of the United States.

United States’ policies and actions related to Native Nations, though often termed “racist” or “discriminatory,” are rarely depicted as what they are: Classic cases of imperialism a particular form of colonialism—settler colonialism. The objective of Anglo-American authorities was to terminate Indigenous existence as peoples, not as random individuals. This is the very definition of genocide as elaborated in the 1948 United Nations Covenant on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Settler-colonialism required violence or the threat of violence to attain its goals of appropriating the land for agribusiness and real estate capital, which formed the foundation of the United States’ political and economic system. The threat of elimination remains real in the 21st century. Furthermore, these practices and the resulting social and cultural mindset are repeated around the war with US counterinsurgent wars and appropriation of resources.