I'm reading the graphic adaptation of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's *Indigenous People's History of the United States.*

(Don't judge me. My attention span is for shit.)

The point it makes about the tools and innovations of colonial Othering and oppression, privatization of public goods, militaristic quelling of domestic opposition (directed by the Church, even), displacement+relocation being perfected by the end of the 15th Century was a mind blower.

I mean I *know* this has happened before. But seeing clearly how Europe perfected this violence on their own people FIRST then exported it to the Americas and elsewhere -- how fucking sick is that.

And this is the 'heritage' Stephen Miller invokes.

#SettlerColonialism

Also, may John Smith rot in hell. Fucking genocidal psychopath.

#SettlerColonialism

And John Calvin can eat a dick.

#SettlerColonialism
#calvinism

The language of the British imperialist, Major General Jeffrey Amherst:

"We must, on this occasion, use every strategem in our power to reduce them! To bring them to a proper subjection until there is not an Indian settlement with 1,000 miles of our country!"

Wow. Almost the same words and sentiment of Israel, centuries later, re: Palestinians.

I literally did not put realize how some of US military terminology is a head nod to the origins and development of the early US military in conquering the Indigenous nations that fought their displacement and eradication.
@DeliaChristina yeah for real, even today when US troops go into enemy territory they say they're in "indian country"