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How many people know about the thriving farm culture in the Southern States, where the Native Peoples were driven out and sent on the Long Walk, where they died, and where they were given smallpox-infected blankets? That is a horror.

Yeah ._. hell my family wasn't even *in* this country when that shit was happening--all my ancestors got here 1915 to 1940--but it MORTIFIES me that we benefitted in any way from these hideous ill-gotten gains. Imagine attending a dinner and finding out AFTER THE FACT you've been fed human flesh >.<

Same here. You don't get any whiter than this granddaughter of 20th Century immigrants is, but I am 100% in favor of teaching the history of What Really Happened and trying to make amends for past mistakes.

It was still going on in the 1920's in the west, dude. They were killing people for their land in the PNW constantly. Still going on today. That's why the rez is full of fentanyl and guns.

That too, but that's not killing as many people as the other two things right now. My brother is a paramedic on a reservation and thats kinda his two main calls

In late August 2025, I visited the National Museum of the American Indian, among other DC museums. There was a large, detailed section on the removal of the Potawatomi, called the Trail of Death, worth visiting. A museum devoted to a native holocaust would be a massive undertaking.

It’s important to learn the history of.. the endless broken treaties, forced removal from land held for centuries, the children taken to be educated by missionaries. Today ICE agents refuse to accept Tribal IDs as proof of Citizenship!

The Native Americans have been victims of genocide. Yes, white Europeans decided to just wipe them out, take their land & then deny, deny, deny. The start of a free & fair society? 🫤

If you think Natives want to be remembered just as victims of genocide, you're no different than the patronizing 20th century whites who implied that Native history ended at the end of the 19th Century. There's a Smithsonian Native American museum that celebrates their contemporary living cultures.

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If an Indigenous People's Holocaust Museum is ever built, it should include pictures like this. I'm sure some of my paternal side great grandmother's relatives went hungry due to this act of genocide.

My great grandmother is the only non-white person in my ancestry. Mom's side is English/German and Dutch. My dad's side is English/Irish and English/Blackfoot Indian. I've been lucky to see many species white invaders slaughtered (fishers, mink, bobcats, coyotes). I saw Bison north of Winnipeg in 85

True, but the best we can do today is to make amends for the evil our ancestors did in the past which we are currently profiting from(oil, potash, uranium, bauxite/aluminum, cedar, pine, nickel, lithium, cod, lobster, salmon, iron, coal and fresh water).

Absolutely 💯 agree! What makes this even more despicable is the great migration west, the wagon trains depended on bison for their survival along the trails. Most likely even my own maternal ancestors survival times as well. Unknown if any participated in the genocide. If so, on behalf,deeply sorry

A mountain of Bison skulls from bison butcherers like Buffalo Bill Cody who was paid by the American government to kill and leave to rot in the sun of the American prairies. It was genocide to deprive nations like the Sioux or my distant Blackfoot Confederacy ancestors of food, clothing and shelter.

Thank you for the explanation. Strikes me that this is the kind of history Trump is trying to keep the Smithsonian from teaching. Instead, we need more of this.

Yes, bison skulls butchered to deprive my Blackfoot ancestors and North American Prairie Indigenous Nations of food, clothing and housing. Cowards like Buffalo Bill Cody were paid by American governments to make bison and Indigenous nations extinct. My great grandmother was Blackfoot a Indian.

That's very fair, intelligent Brits have come to realise many of the terrible things done in the name of Empire. Hopefully support, reparations and acceptance will continue. In the USA slavery seems still to be celebrated and the Native American holocaust ignored.

Top tip : You simply need to market it in a way that justifies the killing of more brown people and you’ll not just have a centre & memorial, but effective control of the narrative & media.

True post. In the US racisim and immigration is a dire situation.There’s doubt if that will ever change as long as oligarchs control politics.It’s about power and control.They don’t plan to loose either.To the contrary,human population has grown and the rich are fighting to keep their powder.

Germany took responsibility for the genocide it created in more ways than one and they allowed the world to know about it. But not the US. It’s not ready to admit the nation was build on theft, genocide and racisim.This is why skin color is a big disruptive issue as is immigration and little changes

Historians who study Natzi records and Hitler’s writings noticed that Adolf was not interested in visiting the U.S.because his entire politcal ideology and military ambition was strictly centered on conquest and racial domination in Eastern Europe first. He’s grand plan however, was world supremacy

Genocide both intentional and unintentional.The first colonies were able to get a foothold because the colonists noticed evidence of abandoned settlements, decimated tribes,due to epidemic disease introduced unknowingly by first contact. It would be like attacking Europe during the Black Death times

The genocide of Indigenous people is the foundation on which the unaccountable persona of the United States was laid. bsky.app/profile/mari...

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American history is replete with evil deeds whose perpetrators are known, but for which no one was held accountable. And calls for reparations and restitution by the victims and their descendants are persistently rebuked Without accountability America's psychological baggage just keeps growing 2/2

We will never grow and progress as a country until we come to terms with our past and founding. Native Americans and slavery. Two huge stains on our country. Nothing wrong with acknowledging the bad along with the good. That’s called humanity. And growth. And adulthood.

Genocide denial is rampant, as if it has been around so long that it is no longer noticed. The US is complicit with Israel because he has something to lose if he doesn't support the other Hitler wanna be.

It been a long time coming but unfortunately the powers that be at the moment will have nothing to do with it. What our forefathers did to Native Americans on their push westward was nothing short of genocide.

This continued injustice in our home on native lands undermines our aspirational goal as a “just society”. It is also why we’re ineffective bystanders to the crimes perpetrated by USA & Israel. Our durable settler colonial character of #duplicitousOpportunism has to be challenged and changed now

If you understand that, then who is in the picture behind Trump and what is the intent of Trump as he issues an award to a Navajo? Intentional overt blatant institutionalized racism on full display here.

Yes. This country was created because of the madness of King George with a side of genocide of those living on the land. Will our history ever have the balls to be factual?

Before any uptight upright American people want to feel superior because you’re complaining about genocide in the Middle East, how’s about that genocide right here in your yard.

Thanks for this. We have a fifth=grader in my family and I will make sure she sees this. She understands helping the less fortunate.

I strongly believe there needs to a global chain of genocide museums. We need to come face to face with the fact we are all capable of great evil, and it doesn't take much to get us there. And maybe we shouldn't let genocide happen because we could just as easily be the next victims.

This is no consolation but in the way the most relevant histories have been passed generationally by word of mouth through storytelling long before books and media existed, this museum exists & breathes more profoundly around the world than one tourists pay admission to share & walk away from. 🪶🤍✊️

YES! What was done was horrible, we need to bring all of it to light. Native Americans were murdered and their land taken from them, it was cruel and violent. We are reaping the lies of generations. You can only work with the truth. Lies kill. Look at the unbridled hate we're living in right now.

All the American hypocrites who are busily denouncing alleged colonialism and genocide in Gaza should ask themselves why they don’t do something real about it at home where they can make an immediate difference. Start with returning your homes and real estate to your local tribe today!

Yes!!! I lost ancestors to the genocide, they are often in my thoughts. I often wonder how great “Turtle Island” would have been had Europeans not come here and stolen the lives, land, and resources from its native people. They were good people and good stewards of this country.