Nope, I don't. the Sullivan Expedition also happened later because the Seneca are real hecking resilient.

But the Seneca referred to GW as "town destroyer" bc of how many places he'd sacked before the Revolutionary War. Like, genocide was already his bag prior to independence. https://twitter.com/wosewoes/status/1327069234652966912

Try something fun this week. Instead of correcting women who know things you don't, google it & learn something!

Attention: we have now achieved 2nd degree mansplaining

don't worry 2° mansplainers you're not special

EVERY time you call mansplaining mansplaining, someone shows up to mansplain how it's not mansplaining.

ironically these people are often women looking for Cool Girl Points

I'm really intrigued by how much furor & super-emotional denial we're picking up here, just by pointing out

1) George Washington personally carried out genocide campaigns.

2) It took multiple generations of genocide campaigns to seize Seneca territory.

Did y'all think Native land theft was one round of smallpox blankets, a couple of raids, & it was game over?

NOPE.

Indigenous communities put up heavy military resistance to land theft for CENTURIES.

That's why the Seneca called George Washington Hanadahguyus, or Town Destroyer. He destroyed towns.

They also called his great-grandpa John Washington that. Because he was pillaging Seneca towns in the late 1600s.

GW was at least a 4th-generation genocide-doer.

And, I cannot emphasize this enough, there is literally a wikipedia article about this. With citations and everything.

Fuck the incredulousness already. Yes, it's real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Destroyer

Think about what that says about the Seneca's food systems.

Settlers tried to take their land for generations & failed.

The Seneca didn't win those wars on an empty stomach.

That's why, 4 generations in, settlers gave up on trying to fight the Seneca head-on

and just started burning their crops and granaries.

They starved them out.

There's a pretty straight line from our country's origin in genocide-by-starvation to the fucked-up food system we have today.

Jim Crow was also, in large part, a starve-them-out campaign. Seizing Black farmers' land meant they had to live as peons or get lost.

It's echoed in how COVID-19 response is going right now.

CFAP gives farmers $13B in direct aid to make up for how nobody's buying their food.

Guess how much it gives hungry people to buy food?

Nada. Zilch. Nothing.

This administration & its rural landowning supporters don't see ordinary Americans as fellow citizens.

It sees them as marks. A natural resource to mine. People you extract grocery dollars from when it's convenient, & let starve when it's not.

For George Washington, the start of wars with the Seneca was at least 4 generations ago.

Meanwhile, today's farmers are only 1-2 generations removed from Jim Crow.

It's not that far in the past for them. And the "starve annoying people out" strategy legit worked pretty well for them last time. Why would they try anything different?

"Starve out your political opponents" has been part of white landowning Americans' lifestyle for at least 400 years.

It has its origins in the fact that Indigenous food systems were too damn robust, scaled too well, and had to be broken before settlers could take their land.

That's why George Washington and his great-grandpa had the same Seneca name.

That's how long it took to wreck Seneca food systems. 4+ generations.

For comparison, today's corn & soy system has only existed for 2 generations.

Just something to think about next time we wanna fuss about Indigenous food systems & scale.