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« The memory of settlers: Chad L. Anderson, The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia: History, Conquest, and Memory in the Native Northeast, University of Nebraska Press, 2020
It’s a British thing: Susan Kingsley Kent , British Settler Colonialism since 1530: Indigenous Peoples in an Imperial World, Bloomsbury, 2025 »

Latter Day settlers: Melvin C. Johnson, ‘West of the Missouri: Latter Day Saints Among the Civilized Tribes of the Indian Territory before 1861’, The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, 44, 2, 2024, pp. 42-68

07Jan26

Excerpt: The Latter Day Saints from the beginning days of their various denominations have been interested in and involved with the indigenous peoples of North Ameri-ca. Relocation of these peoples by Congress resulted in the transfer of tens of thousands of these native peoples to lands set aside for them west of the Missouri River, in what is now Kansas and Oklahoma. For thirty years Mormon settlers, wayfarers, missionaries, and immigrant companies moved among the nations, temporarily staying among them for several seasons before moving on.’ This article examines the years from 1845 to 1860 …

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    • The burning fire of settler colonialism: Jack A Kredell, Apparatuses of Fire: Smokey Bear, Exception, and Wildfire Emotion, PhD dissertation, University of Idaho, 2026
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