To the White Colonizer

You built your so-called “civilization” on stolen land and the blood of our ancestors. The land you occupy, which you call “America,” was taken from us—Turtle Island, our home. You waged wars, committed genocide, and spread lies of “progress” while destroying everything we were. You invaded our lands, calling it “discovery,” when it was theft and violence.In your pursuit of power, you stole our cultures, our languages, our identities. You erased us from history, made us invisible, and claimed what was never yours. You forced our people into the shadows, but not out of memory.You rewrote history to serve your narrative, erasing the truth. You slaughtered us, manipulated the world, and stole our future. And still, you lie, pretending what you took was ever yours.

You Tried to Erase Us

You murdered an estimated 100 million Indigenous people across Turtle Island (America), leaving fewer than 2% of us remaining—and you still claim we were the ones lost.You separated families, stole our children, placed them in institutions meant to erase who they were. You burned their languages, filled their minds with lies, calling it “civilization.”You pushed our ancestors onto barren reservations, calling it a solution, making them prisoners on their own land while you took everything for yourself.You slaughtered our people, treated their lives as disposable, and built your empire on their blood. You erased them from history, pretending it was for our own good.And even now, you steal our women and girls, take them from their families, make them disappear. Thousands missing, murdered, forgotten—because to you, we are still not human.You built this world on our suffering, and you still benefit from it today.But you failed.The spirit of Turtle Island (America) cannot be killed by your lies.We fight to reclaim what you stole—our land, our languages, our sovereignty.We are still here, and we will never be erased.

The Reckoning

This is The Reckoning. The time has come for you to face the truth of your crimes. The theft of Turtle Island, the destruction of our cultures, and the erasure of our people cannot be forgotten.This is a movement for Land Back, for sovereignty, for the recognition of our rights. We will no longer allow you to silence our voices or control our narrative. This is the truth you cannot escape.

I am TAHU ^—a Native Turtle Islander from the Haliwa-Saponi tribe and the force behind For Native By Native (fnbn). For over 20 years, I’ve moved through your world—across Turtle Island, Europe, and beyond—spreading the truth, making you aware, and forcing you to listen.Our fight for justice, sovereignty, and Land Back is global. It’s time for the world to know: Our ancestors fought to survive, and we continue that fight.We will not forget. We will not forgive. The Reckoning is Now.^