Not seeking to be included in Jefferson's "Country."

Somewhere. I read someone suggest that while Jefferson's Declaration of Independence was a document by white men of property, for white men of property and written by a white man of property to be embraced and ratified by white men of property, still its words inspire the people who were "excluded" and over time they have fought to be "included."

I do experience the Declaration of Independence as excluding Native peoples, I experience the document as slandering and attacking Native peoples, and intending to remove all barriers for exterminating Native peoples. A key part of the Declaration is the list of grievances, where Jefferson writes this lie [the King] "has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

Indigenous peoples did not attack non combatants until long after they had experienced village burning, raping, and enslavement. The behavior that Jefferson projects onto "merciless Indian Savages" was the way of warfare brought to this continent by these shores.

Furthermore, Jefferson knew as a Virginia politician that the intention of his class was to seize the land beyond the mountains, and it was his own Province's militia excursions that had aroused indigenous resistance along the entire Appalachian frontier. Concurrent with the Declaration of Independence G. Washington ordered the burning of the indigenous villages along the Hudson.

No. I do not find Jefferson's words inspiring, motivating indigenous Americans to seek inclusion in "his Country." No, he is the visionary of Indian removal and extermination. He is not a flawed man of his times. His vision was conquest and extermination and extension of his slaveholders republic across my Country.

My Country seeks to remove Jefferson's legacy of White power and privilege and seeks to welcome all who will treat this land as their mother and not a thing to be exploited and will live in peace with the peoples of this world.