Last month, in the middle of the Covid panic, a group of first-year university students at the University of Connecticut were welcomed to their campus via a series of online ‘events’. At one event, students were directed to download an app for their phones. The app allowed students to input their home address, and it would piously inform them from which group of Native Americans their home had been ‘stolen’.
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Jeff Fynn-Paul is associate professor in history at Leiden University. To read a longer version of this article, visit www.spectator.co.uk
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