Richard Starr Colley

@dctsalagi.bsky.social

Cherokee Nation citizen. South Texan. DC resident. Amateur genealogist. You can find me in libraries and graveyards.

I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1

Ann Coulter commenting that "We (meaning the U.S., presumably) did not kill enough Indians."