Was looking at the Wikipedia list of US military deaths (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war) over the years and was struck by how many wars against the noble savage we engaged in during our noble expansion west in this great land of ours which we now possess.

I have always wondered how many were slaughtered, how many died of imported diseases, how many were exiled to bad land no one wanted, and how many were assimilated. Let’s read….

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Native-American/Assimilation-versus-sovereignty-the-late-19th-to-the-late-20th-century

Yikes, this is quite a list:

《Programs promoting assimilation were framed by the social and economic ideals that had come to dominate the national cultures of Canada and the United States. Although they varied in detail, these ideals generally emphasized Euro-American social structures and habits such as nuclear or, at most, three-generation families; patrilineal kinship; differential inheritance among “legitimate” and “illegitimate” children; male-led households; a division of labour that defined the efforts of women, children, and elders as “domestic help” and those of men as “productive labour”; sober religiosity; and corporal punishment for children and women. Economically, they emphasized capitalist principles, especially the ownership of private property (particularly of land, livestock, and machinery); self-directed occupations such as shop keeping, farming, and ranching; and the self-sufficiency of the nuclear household.》

This entire article seems pretty solid, btw.