Letter Not Yet Written by Descendants of European Colonizers to the First Peoples of the Americas

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Letter Not Yet Written by Descendants of European Colonizers to the First Peoples of the Americas

George Catlin, Indian Encampment, Comanche (or Kiowa) Dressing Skins, Red River,1846-1848, oil on canvas

Dear First Nations of the Americas, 

Our ancestors were wrong. 

They did not discover the Americas. 

You were here when they arrived. 

You had great civilizations and societies for 

thousands of years before they arrived. 

You are human, just like us, not savages. 

We apologize for them saying they discovered a place 

where there were already other humans. 

We will stop saying Europeans discovered the Americas. 

Signed, 

Descendants of European Colonizers of the Americas