Editing Dehumanization (section)

===Native Americans===
[[File:Woundedknee1891.jpg|thumb|220px|Mass grave for the dead Lakota following the [[Wounded Knee massacre]]. Up to 300 Natives were killed, mostly old men, women, and children.<ref>{{cite web|title=Plains Humanities: Wounded Knee Massacre|url=http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.war.056|access-date=August 9, 2016}}</ref>]]
Native Americans were dehumanized as "merciless Indian [[Savage (pejorative term)|savages]]" in the [[United States Declaration of Independence]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Facebook labels declaration of independence as 'hate speech' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/facebook-declaration-of-independence-hate-speech |access-date=February 7, 2021 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> Following the [[Wounded Knee massacre]] in December 1890, author [[L. Frank Baum]] wrote:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/baumedts.htm |title=L. Frank Baum's Editorials on the Sioux Nation |access-date=2007-12-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209193251/http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/baumedts.htm |archive-date=December 9, 2007 }} Full text of both, with commentary by professor A. Waller Hastings</ref><blockquote>The ''Pioneer'' has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination [sic] of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth. In this lies safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are under incompetent commands. Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past. </blockquote>In [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]'s book on [[Civil and political rights|civil rights]], ''[[Why We Can't Wait]]'', he wrote:<ref name="kingnatspeech">{{cite web |last1=Rickert |first1=Levi |title=Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Our Nation was Born in Genocide |url=https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-nation-born-genocide/ |website=Native News Online |access-date=January 9, 2021 |date=January 16, 2017 |archive-date=November 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126092832/https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-nation-born-genocide/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Reflection today: "Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrin...|url=https://nacc.yalecollege.yale.edu/reflection-today-our-nation-was-born-genocide-when-it-embraced-doctrin|access-date=June 3, 2020|agency=Yale University|archive-date=June 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603175817/https://nacc.yalecollege.yale.edu/reflection-today-our-nation-was-born-genocide-when-it-embraced-doctrin|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="kingcreek">{{cite web |last1=Bender |first1=Albert |title=Dr. King spoke out against the genocide of Native Americans |url=http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/dr-king-spoke-out-against-the-genocide-of-native-americans/ |website=People's World |access-date=November 25, 2018 |date=February 13, 2014}}</ref>

<blockquote>Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our [[folklore]] all exalt it.</blockquote>

King was an active supporter of the [[Red Power movement|Native American rights movement]], which he drew parallels with his own leadership of the [[civil rights movement]].<ref name="kingcreek"/> Both movements aimed to overturn dehumanizing attitudes held by members of the public at large against them.<ref>{{citation|last=Johansen|first=Bruce E.|title=Encyclopedia of the American Indian Movement|year=2013|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|isbn=978-1-4408-0318-5|at="Brando, Marlon" (pp. 60–63); "Littlefeather, Sacheen" (pp. 176–178)}}</ref>