by Daniella F. Bassi
There’s no doubt that the Americas were irrevocably changed by European contact. The decimation and sociopolitical transformation of the Western Hemisphere was so thorough that many scholars speak of an indigenous genocide—the intentional destruction of native societies. But there’s also no doubt that the story is not so simple.
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Daniella F. Bassi is managing editor of journals and books at the Mises Institute. Her book, An Interlude of Freedom: The White Fox Trade, Inuit Sovereignty, and the Canadian State in the Eastern Arctic, 1900–60, will be published by the Mises Institute in spring 2026.
Isonomia Quarterly 