Reposted from Robby Romero - #Honor1851Treaty

Today, October 31, is the anniversary of the completion of Mt. Rushmore, one of the most visited tourist attractions in America, with four American Presidents carved into the sacred land of the Lakota people. The same four presidents that engaged in intentional actions to destroy a people in whole or in part, otherwise known as Genocide. We have all heard how these US Presidents expanded the conquest and colonization of Indigenous Peoples in the so-called, “New World", but few have heard of the human cost, ongoing widespread devastation and historical trauma their actions unleashed on Indigenous Peoples.

Lincoln was responsible for the largest mass execution in US history, known as the Dakota 38.

George Washington declared an all-out extermination of the Iroquois people.

Thomas Jefferson supported the extermination of the Cherokee and the Creek. He said all Natives should be driven beyond the Mississippi or, “take up the hatchet” and “never lay it down until they are all exterminated.”

Theodore Roosevelt, who, shortly after being elected governor of New York, announced, “This continent had to be won. We need not waste our time in dealing with any sentimentalist who believes that, on account of any abstract principle, it would have been right to leave this continent to the domain, the hunting ground of squalid savages. It had to be taken by the white race.”

You can’t reverse history, but you can #RightTheWrong and #Honor1851Treaty.

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