“…8 From the start of the English invasions of North America in the 1600s, Native Americans, as the Indigenous inhabitants of the continent, have been targeted for collective elimination through various racial, social, economic, and geographic schemes-genocide, dispossession, forced removal, and forced assimilation-that have allowed the expanding settler state to acquire their land and resources. 9 Equally important, in the white-Indian binary central to cultural logic of Anglo settler colonialism, Native peoples have long been denied a place in modernity-in the modern nation-state. 10 Other racialized groups-such as those of Asian, Mexican, and African ancestry-have also been targets, though in a different fashion.…”