Displacing Indigenous Peoples
NCERT Themes in World History, Class 11, Chapter 6 tells how European settlers displaced native peoples in North America and Australia during the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It traces fur traders, ranchers, miners, and farmers seizing land after gold finds and railways, the fencing of reservations, and policies of assimilation through schools. It records disease, wars, and the loss of hunting grounds alongside native resistance and survival. It closes with historians rethinking progress, rights, and apology.
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