Like criminals, the first people were
removed from public sight and space, and placed in “separate
confinement” on Reservations.
Almost simultaneous
with the failure of separate confinement as a prison discipline
so did it succeed as a way of expressing and containing the dreadful
fear of the native people. In a sense, the Indian
was removed from the spectacle of the creation of "America."
The native peoples were rendered—and remain—in
vision, geography,
socially, personally and
intimately invisible.
In effect all Indian peoples and cultures
were ejected from “America.” This
was an act of Civil Religion exorcism and
exile.
As a result, the “dreadful fear” of the native
first people was—in America’s eyes—contained and
managed.
Continue—African
slave trade movement
