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Luxembourgish settler-colonialism in Chicago

It is our duty to understand the intricate implications of history and connect the dots. America is known as the land of opportunity—but when we take a closer look, these opportunities were seized from the land’s original inhabitants, taken from them by bloodthirsty colonists and given to white settlers like Nicholas Faber of Bauschleiden or Wilhelm Sinner and Pierre Pleschette of Grosbous. I end this article by calling on Luxembourgish-American institutions to reexamine their representation of history to include these hard truths and to make clear the effects of Luxembourgish settler colonialism on Native Americans.

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