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🇺🇸 **The Bloody Origins of the Word “Pioneer”**
"_Emerging from the French term pionnier, the first ranks of foot soldiers, the term “pioneer” was for them a marker of the violence they used when seizing Native land for themselves_"
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/09/24/the-bloody-origins-of-the-word-pioneer/.
