Love the dolphins. Write by WASTE

[Richard Ryan]

Genocide (in modern times, at least) requires bureaucracy.  Thanks for this reminder.

> On Apr 29, 2021, at 2:36 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  By 1848, the United States laid claim to territory that stretched from
> coast to coast. In reality, the western half of the country remained
> Indigenous land, a vast expanse of territory that the US Government did not
> actually control. Over the coming decades the West was utterly transformed.
> The United States waged war against western tribes, forcing them off their
> land and onto reservations. Millions of Americans swarmed across this
> plundered territory, building towns and homesteads, mines and mills, dams
> and railroads. How did this happen so quickly, in the span of a single
> generation? The answer lies, in part, with an unlikely source: the US Post.
> Between 1848 and 1895 the federal government wove together a “gossamer
> network” across the West, a sprawling and fast-moving web of post offices
> and mail routes that connected the region’s far-flung settlements into a
> national system of communications. The US Post was the underlying circuitry
> of western expansion.
> 
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