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It's the mid-1800s, and I'm a middle-class, white New Englander. How much do I know about the ongoing genocide on the frontier? Have I heard about the massacres and deportations, or do I just know vague, Karl May-esque cliches about brave pioneers fighting savage indians?

by /u/Pale_Chapter in /r/AskHistorians

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