Aggression and Sufferings — How Settler Memory Reversed the Story of Conquest

Crisis in Perception · Jul 25, 2026 · 29m

How can a society expand through aggression, remember itself as the victim, and turn that memory into a shared identity?

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

Using Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South by F. Evan Nooe as its lens, this episode investigates how settler violence, Indigenous resistance, and selective memory contributed to the formation of a white southern regional identity.

Nooe argues that white communities preserved stories of Native attacks, militia sacrifice, family…