The entirety of the Americas was full of people before Europeans, whole and rich civilizations with cities and artwork and histories that settlers almost or in some cases completely succeeded in destroying. It’s too great a tragedy to put into words.
oh my god, this! I’ve seen so many takes like “solidarity with colonised people around the world, let’s celebrate telling the British to fuck off” and it’s like, okay but you very much are the British still, and the French, and the Spanish.
