Native American Decleration Of Independence An Angry Indian
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men, including Native Americans, are created equal. We are a people who love plants and animals as much as we love our sons. We believe in only keeping the largest fish. We came here when the rivers and oceans were filled. We treasure our children and our grandparents, and everything that was in our land before the white man came. We are not morons and savages like we have been called for many summers. The Native Americans are a country of philanthropists; you destroyed our land in every possible way; we tried to give you a fair share of land, and now we will murder all of you or drive you all right back across the Atlantic.
We are greatly annoyed by your writing of the Declaration of Independence. You find reasons for your colonies to claim this land for your own. The land you claim is yours was stolen from us through treaties that were never official to every Native American tribe. You write, “For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.” After the white men killed millions of Native Americans by spreading disease, you burdened our lands with large bodies of armed civilians among us. You go on to write, “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.” That is exactly what you have done to us for the past hundreds of years. You kill all the animals you can find, to take only their skins or horns. You cut down trees that have been standing for years and years. The part of the Declaration of Independence disgusted me the most was how you argue for, “Taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.” You must understand that Native Americans were here with their own government. It was an unwritten form of government where nobody could own the land and that everyone was treated equally. The first settlers here enslaved us and murdered us. They did not respect our unwritten laws in the land. My last objection to your Declaration of Independence is your reason, “For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.” ...