naomi
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honored to live on Puyallup lands
anti-colonial, anti-militarism, pro birds
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![In 1707 John Archdale, governor of North Carolina,
offered the following take on the destruction of Indian tribes: I shall give you some farther Eminent Remark hereupon, and especially in the
first Settlement of Carolina, where the Hand of God was eminently seen in thinning the Indians, to make room for the English. As for Example in Carolina, in which were seated two Potent Nations called the Westoes, and Sarannah [i.e., Savannah], which contained many Thousands, who broke out into an unusual Civil War and thereby reduced themselves into a small Number, and the Westoes, the more Cruel of the two, were at the last forced quite out of that Province, and the Sarannahs continued good Friends and useful Neighbours to the English. But again, it at other times pleased Almighty God to send unusual Sicknesses among them, as the Smallpox, etc., to lessen their Numbers; so that the English, in Comparison to the Spaniard, have but little Indian Blood to answer for. Now the English at first settling in small Numbers, there seemed a Necessity of thinning the barbarous Indian Nations; and therefore since our Cruelty is not the Instrument thereof, it pleased God to send, as I may say, an Assyrian Angel to do it himself.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vbp6hu2ngidazld3l7phww3v/bafkreibus2sgl4gsskcx26mwxwjrtjuf2rruezitmzfi34h4k3qukqe2b4@jpeg)
