Millions of Americans have nothing to celebrate on the Fourth of July
On Independence Day, the stirring words of Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence set the tone. Buried a bit further down, however, is another passage that is somewhat less well-known:
“…the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
That line, and America’s subsequent history with Native Americans, goes a long way toward explaining why the holiday largely does not resonate with the United States’ roughly 5.2 million indigenous peoples.
Published
theluminouscosmos 