Claire's Brother
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Again, the settlers want the land, the native becomes an obstacle, and different settler societies develop different methods for dealing with that obstacle.
The US had its ethnic cleansings, removals, reservation system, and boarding schools.
Australia had frontier wars, stolen generations, and land dispossessions.
Canada had assimilation policies like reservation schools.
South Africa, under white rule, couldn't expel the black majority, so they maintained apartheid, controlled reservations, and extracted labor.
But again, what matters for defining settler colonialism is that indigenous sovereignty is displaced and settler control over the land is secured.
Of course, indigenous people in all cases do not take this abuse lying down.
From the very beginning of Liberian settlement, indigenous peoples resisted.
The Kru, Grebo, Vai, and numerous other ethnic groups fought against territorial expansion, taxation, forced labor, and attempts by the Liberian states to extend its authority into the interior.
And despite generations of American-Liberian dominance, indigenous resistance never entirely disappeared.
Eventually, the political order that had governed Liberia for over a century began to crack.
Economic crisis, corruption, and growing resentment towards settler domination culminated in a military coup in 1980, led by Samuel Doe, overthrowing the government of President William Tolbert and ending more than a century of uninterrupted Amerigo-Liberian political dominance.
Now, that coup clearly did not create a free or egalitarian society.
Liberia would soon face dictatorship, civil war, and immense suffering.
But it did mark the collapse of the old settler elite's monopoly on state power, and efforts at recovery in the country are ongoing.
Palestinian resistance, on the other hand, faced a very different trajectory.
From the beginning of Zionist settlement, Palestinians resisted displacement and land loss through protests, strikes, political organizing, and armed revolt.
The Great Arab Revolt of 1936 to 1939 saw Palestinians launch a massive strike and uprising against both British colonial rule and Zionist settlement.
Decades later came the First and Second Intifadas, mass movements that combined protest, civil disobedience, community organizing, and armed resistance.
Palestinians have built a number of institutions alongside international solidarity movements in an effort to sustain their efforts under occupation, siege, exile, and apartheid.
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