Another entry in ICT’s “America 250” series offers a historical timeline of the seizure of land by the European colonizers who created the United States of America while systematically ostracizing, excluding, forcibly exiling, and/or annihilating its inhabitants in order to seize their land and extract their resources.
“The growth of the republic came at a tremendous cost to the first peoples of this continent … The following timeline traces key moments in the loss of Native land from the founding of the United States through the nineteenth century. It is not a complete history, but it highlights how federal policies and territorial expansion reshaped Indigenous homelands across North America. As Americans commemorate 250 years of nationhood, this timeline invites reflection on a deeper and more complex history—one that recognizes both the resilience of Native nations and the reality that the United States became a continental power through the acquisition of Native land.”