what everyone forgets is that the Dakota Uprising ended in 1862 with the hanging of 38 Dakota men, the largest mass execution in US history. Also forgotten is that Colorado war began in 1864 after the infamous sand creek massacre committed by white settlers. (2/4)
what the holiday rlly commemorates is the conception of the most successful settler colonial project in history and it’s genocidal campaign across a continent of nations of peoples. (4/4)
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1) invent a fake national identity
2) whitewash the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized.
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