Native Americans

The indigenous peoples of the Americas who inhabited the land before European colonization. In these claims, “Native Americans” refers to the specific group subjected to English/American colonial ideology, intermarriage, homogenization, and demonization—treated as a historical social category rather than a mere place label.

Claims that use this term

• Intermarriage occurred between African Americans and Native Americans in the 18th century.
• Britain borrowed demonization of Native Americans and applied it to Muslims
• English colonial ideology toward Native Americans and blacks was recycled from its Irish conquest
• War on Terror homogenized Muslims the way earlier eras homogenized Native Americans and Africans
• Anti-Ottoman crusader attitudes were transferred onto Native Americans by English colonists
• Mormon theology reclassified Native Americans as descendants of Israel’s lost tribes