1866 onward

Segregated Black regiments assigned to western campaigns

Western United States; Black soldiers and Indigenous communities

African American soldiers served in segregated units that participated in U.S. conquest of Native homelands. Access to military employment did not end racial subordination and could place one oppressed population in the machinery of another’s dispossession.

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Context / qualification

Not an allegation that every individual soldier committed atrocities; addresses institutional roles.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8

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