Tag Archives: genocide

The many voices that called for Native genocide: A collection of quotes from the United States

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Below is a collection of quotes, mostly from politicians and newspapers, calling for or describing the genocide of Native Americans, from 1832 to 1891. That word didn’t evolve until the Holocaust. In the 1800s, the word was simply “extermination.” On … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged ethnic cleansing, extermination, genocide, Holocaust, indians, native americans, Native history, redskins, US history, William Clark | 4 Comments

Another Native mass burial site hidden in plain sight

Posted on October 20, 2024 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Last week I saw one of the largest mass burial sites in the United States. It is unmarked. The location is the fields among the rolling hills and gentle pastures just south of Charleston, Tennessee. This is where 9,032 Cherokees … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged Cherokee, concentration camp, detachments, ethnic cleansing, Fort Cass, genocide, georgia, history, mass burial, mass grave, NAGPRA, native americans, stockade, Tennessee, Trail of Tears | 8 Comments

Revelations about the Revolution: The Freedom to Steal Land from “Merciless Indian savages” was Key to the Declaration of Independence

Posted on July 4, 2024 by Stephen Carr Hampton

My essay, published this morning (July 4, 2024) by Native News Online and Yahoo News, explores a central thesis in Ned Blackhawk’s award-winning book, The Rediscovery of American – that the American Revolution was primarily motivated by the desire to … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged Declaration of Independence, ethnic cleansing, ethnostate, genocide, merciless Indian savages, Native American history, Ned Blackhawk, Nick Estes, Rediscovery of America, taxation without representation, US history | 1 Comment

The Pioneers were bad guys

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Stephen Carr Hampton

One thing about “the pioneers” as we call them in the US — they were essentially white renegade militias, operating outside of US law, who sought to ethnically cleanse the land for their own acquisition. And that’s the opinion of … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged Cherokee, colonists, crockett, Daniel Boone, ethnic cleansing, Franklin, frontier, genocide, gun culture, history, indians, John Wayne, Little House on the Prairie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Oregon Trail, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, Trail of Tears, white savages, white supremacy | Leave a comment

A reverse land acknowledgment: Place names honor ethnic cleansing and slavery

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I live in Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington. It was originally called qatáy by the S’Klallam, a place with a small lagoon and a series of freshwater ponds that allowed for kayak portages from Puget Sound to the Strait of Juan … Continue reading →

Posted in land acknowledgments | Tagged bird names, birds, cass, Chetzemoka, chimacum, chinese gardens, ethnic cleansing, genocide, history, honor, Indian removal act, indigenous, Jackson, land acknowledgement, land acknowledgment, lincoln, morton, names, Native, Native American history, native americans, polk, port townsend, Rainier, s'klallam, Sioux, slavery, street, townshend | 3 Comments

The Right Wing attack on ICWA and Tribal Sovereignty

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In Season 2 of her podcast, This Land, Rebecca Nagle does some serious investigative journalism, uncovering a small network of powerful ultra-conservative power-brokers, foundations, law firms, attorneys, and judges working together to tear down the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged Bradley Foundation, Brakeen v Haaland, evangelical, Fifth Circuit, foster to adopt, genocide, Gibson Dunn, ICWA, nagle, navajo, Paul Clement, Reed O'Conner, SCOTUS, This Land | 3 Comments

Texas deputizes citizens and awards bounties, as was done for burning witches, catching slaves, and killing Native Americans

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Texas just outlawed all abortions after six weeks after a woman’s last menstruation. They knew this violated the US Constitution under Roe v Wade. To avoid a federal judge blocking the law, Texas will not enforce it. Instead, the law … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged abortion, bounties, bounty, genocide, legal, massacres, militias, scalp, SCOTUS, Standing Rock, Supreme Court, texas | Leave a comment

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s 14th District: Where the Trail of Tears began

Posted on January 30, 2021 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s 14th District in the northwest corner of Georgia lies in the center of the lands the Cherokee Nation was forced to vacate at gunpoint during the horrific ethnic cleansing known as the Trail of Tears. Greene is … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged Andrew Jackson, Cherokee, ethnic cleansing, genocide, Marjorie Taylor Greene, pioneers, racism, removal, settler colonialism, Trail of Tears, trump, white supremacy | 5 Comments

Intergenerational supremacy: The straight line from pioneers to poor white support for Trump

Posted on November 8, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

While I’m tremendously relieved that Biden won the election, I remain terrified. Why did 71 million people vote for Donald Trump in 2020, even more than in 2016? By now, we all knew that the draft-dodging, pussy-grabbing, bankrupt, tax cheating, … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts, news | Tagged 2020, Bacon's Rebellion, Chivington, Custer, de Tocqueville, election, ethnic cleansing, genocide, grant, intergenerational trauma, manifest destiny, massacres, Metzl, mound builders, moundbuilders, pioneers, racism, Sand Creek, sheridan, socialism, Trail of Tears, trump, wedge, white supremacy | Leave a comment

Columbus’s second voyage was the real killer

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

September, 1493, barely six months after Columbus returned to Castile (Spain) from his first voyage, the harbor at Cádiz was abuzz with activity. An armada was assembling. Colombo’s second voyage was no reconnaissance expedition, no “exploration”. It was an invasion. … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged Columbus, Columbus Day, ethnic cleansing, genocide, haiti, Hispaniola, second voyage, Spain | 3 Comments