As illustrated by this Indian Country Today article about the Winnemem Wintu, the war between the United States of America and the Indigenous nations that underlay its boundaries is ongoing. No longer an armed conflict between the U.S. Army and Indigenous warriors, the American agenda of assimilating Indigenous peoples and annihilating Indigenous cultures continues.
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