Profiting From Genocides and Land Grabs: US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
The four former British colonies—Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the US (CANZUS)—stand tall on the world stage. They champion the Western values of freedom, human rights, and justice in their global crusades against autocracy. Sharing a common culture and language, they have come to incarnate the supreme form of human government. Despite the effusive praise for CANZUS, the dominant narrative ignores some ugly truths, those of intercontinental invasions, continental genocides, and continuous exploitation of stolen land. In all four countries, colonists and governments proceeded with systematically wiping out the Indigenous peoples. Once roaming the vast expanse of wilderness in the US, Indian tribes such as the Cherokee, Navajo, and Cheyenne were exterminated through warfare and diseases, while others went extinct. It is estimated that 12 million natives died between 1492 and 1900. The US federal government removed the Indigenous survivors from their lands and moved them to reservat