"Both during and after the colonial era in American history, white settlers engaged in prolonged conflicts with Native Americans in the United States, seeking to displace them and seize their lands, resulting in American enslavement and forced assimilation into settler culture" (Wikipedia). "...approximately 100,000 Indigenous people were forced from their homes during the Trail of Tears, and some 15,000 died during their relocation" (Britannica). "The 19th century witnessed