After last year's riots, initiated by the murder of George Floyd, America has thankfully become more sensitive to the issues of racism and discrimination. Asians added their voices of protest after the mass killings. On this day when we celebrate our independence, is it time for a re-calibration of our understanding of what the Declaration of Independence meant to Native Americans? European colonization of the Americas beginning in 1492 resulted in a precipitous decline in Native American population because of new diseases (a process exacerbated by wars), ethnic cleansing and enslavement. Rejecting the Proclamation Act of 1763 set down by King George forbade private citizens and colonial governments alike from buying land or making agreements with natives, spurred on the drive for independence. After its independence in 1776, the United States, as part of its policy of settler colonialism, continued to wage war and perpetrated massacres against Native American peoples, removing them from their ancestral lands, and subjecting them to one-sided treaties (most of which were broken by the U.S.) and discriminatory government policies. Should we also therefore be celebrating July 4th as Native American Ethnic Cleansing Day? Or would that be too "wokish"?