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Notes from Indian Country
There were no Natives invited to sign the Declaration of Independence
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Thus began the prologue to the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The halls of Congress were filled with white men declaring their independence from England.
There were no Native Americans seated at the table that day. Indigenous people were not beholden to England back then. They had their own independent forms of government that was not tied to a foreign power.
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