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“We didn’t kill enough Indians”

You may have missed Ann Coulter’s comment in the news. It is deeply disturbing but what to me is more concerning is the lack of coverage and, even worse, response from our “leaders”. No wonder my family warned me about the seething racism against us Natives, racism I meet less as I am light skinned, but much too often anyway. This OP-ED piece is perfect. Please consider sharing the OP-Ed with others.

OP-ED: Ann Coulter’s Comments About Native Americans ‘Deplorable’

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Michael Watson PhD

July 9, 2025

First Nations, Grief and Fear, native american, Racism, Terror

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16 responses to ““We didn’t kill enough Indians””

Mary K. Doyle

July 9, 2025 at 10:29 am

What a horrific comment. And to think she influences others in her ignorant and self-centered thoughts.

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1. Michael Watson PhD
  
  July 10, 2025 at 9:12 am
  
  I cannot grasp the lack of outrage (outside of Indian Country). It is almost as if there is large scale tacit approval.
  
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  1. laura bruno lilly
    
    July 10, 2025 at 4:41 pm
    
    Dear Michael – please know there is no ‘tacit approval’ in this household.
    
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    1. Michael Watson PhD
      
      July 16, 2025 at 2:11 pm
      
      Dear Laura, no worries. It never crossed my mind that you and yours would be tacitly approving.
      
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Audrey Kletscher Helbling

July 9, 2025 at 10:35 am

Thank you for sharing. This should be sparking outrage.

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1. Michael Watson PhD
  
  July 10, 2025 at 9:11 am
  
  That it does not seem to be creating outrage is the most frightening aspect of all this.
  
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Laurie Graves

July 9, 2025 at 1:06 pm

Alas, I did see it. Beyond comprehension. They can say any horrible thing that they want and get away with it. If the Dems said one quarter of what the far right said, then their careers would be ruined. Not that I want the Dems to say hateful, terrible things, but there sure is a double standard, where progressive candidates get vilified for, say, wanting free public transportation.

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1. Michael Watson PhD
  
  July 10, 2025 at 9:10 am
  
  Laurie, I agree. What I find most troubling is that almost no one other than Natives, not even the Dems, is holding her responsible which, I fear, speaks to a much larger, more frightening issue.
  
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Libby Sommer

July 11, 2025 at 4:02 pm

So sorry to hear this. Outrageous.

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1. Michael Watson PhD
  
  July 16, 2025 at 2:10 pm
  
  Libby, with so much that is outrageous one wonders how we might bring focus to the craziness, so mucch of which is obscured by the intentionally meaningless.
  
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Andy

July 15, 2025 at 1:37 am

There is so much I’m reading these days that leaves me at a loss for words. Maybe a loss of words is part of the problem.

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1. Michael Watson PhD
  
  July 16, 2025 at 2:09 pm
  
  Andy, I think the loss of words is part of their tactic, and why they hate and fear the arts. So much erasure and chaos, so much twisting of words’ meanings creating great pools of incoherence.
  
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  1. Andy
    
    July 16, 2025 at 4:12 pm
    
    Dictators’ regimes have always moved against the writers and the intellectuals.
    
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    1. Michael Watson PhD
      
      July 17, 2025 at 4:23 pm
      
      I am always intrigued when dictators say the arts are unimportant then try to destroy them. I find that fascinating and enlightening….
      
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Carol A. Hand

July 20, 2025 at 11:22 am

Both sad and deeply troubling, Michael. A long time ago, when I tackled the use of demeaning images of Native Americans by public school sports teams, I realized the importance of knowing one’s ancestral roots and sense of belonging to a People and a sacred place. It’s not something the descendants of immigrants to the U.S. from Europe had here or have presently. It’s something they will really never feel they have as long as Indigenous Peoples are alive along with their language, culture, history, and connections to homeland. It’s a void that really can never be filled until one embraces the fact that we ALL share the whole world as our home and at best, serve as caretakers for all our relations.

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1. Michael Watson PhD
  
  July 21, 2025 at 9:44 am
  
  Well said, Carol. I often wonder how it is that people can’t understand that viable communities of all kinds need diversity and an awareness of the whole.
  
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