{"id":727182,"date":"2026-06-26T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727182\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:32:10","slug":"a-declaration-of-interdependence-helped-create-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727182\/","title":{"rendered":"A declaration of interdependence helped create United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Declaration of Independence refers to Native Americans as \u201cmerciless Indian savages,\u201d a phrase not often highlighted by those who envision a higher standard for America. But in his role as statesman and diplomat, Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the declaration, also wrote to his counterparts in Europe:<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Richard Monette\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1175\" height=\"1763\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Monette<\/p>\n<p>kAm\u201cx 4@?D:56C65 @FC C:89E @7 AC6\\6&gt;AE:@? @7 E96 x?5:2? =2?5D ?@E 2D 2&gt;@F?E:?8 E@ 2?J 5@&gt;:?:@? @G6C[ @C ;FC:D5:4E:@?[ @C A2C2&gt;@F?ED9:A H92E6G6C[ \u2026 E92E E96 x?5:2?D 925 E96 7F==[ F?5:G:565 2?5 :?56A6?56?E D@G6C6:8?EJ 2D =@?8 2D E96J 49@D6 E@ &lt;66A :E[ 2?5 E92E E9:D &gt;:89E 36 7@C6G6C]\u201dk^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAmx? @E96C H@C5D[ p&gt;6C:42\u2019D :?56A6?56?46 56A6?565 \ud83d\ude15 A2CE @? C64@8?:K:?8 E96 :?56A6?56?46 @7 x?5:2? EC:36D] p?5 J6E[ D:?46 :ED :?46AE:@?[ E96 C6=2E:@?D9:A 36EH66? E96 &amp;?:E65 $E2E6D 2?5 }2E:G6 ?2E:@?D 92D 366? C:55=65 H:E9 4@?7=:4E:?8 =2HD 2?5 A@=:4:6D] uC@&gt; E96 &#8216;2==25@=:5 s632E6[ H96C6 q2CE@=@&gt;\u00e9 56 =2D r2D2D 2?5\u00a0yF2? v:?\u00e9D 56 $6A\u00fa=G652 5632E65 H96E96C E96 \u201cx?5:2?D\u201d H6C6 9F&gt;2? H:E9 D@F=D H@CE9J @7 r9C:DE:2?:EJ[ E@ &amp;]$] $FAC6&gt;6 r@FCE yFDE:46 r=2C6?46 %9@&gt;2D k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^HHH]=2H]4@C?6==]65F^DFAC6&gt;64@FCE^E6IE^dc`^`hbnFE&gt;0D@FC46l492E8AE]4@&gt;Q E2C86ElQ03=2?&lt;3: p=&#8221;&#8221;&gt;\u201c\u201d\u20193:&gt;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201d\u201c\u201d\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Declaration of Independence refers to Native Americans as \u201cmerciless Indian savages,\u201d a phrase not often highlighted by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,57362,92506,3,111,21,312781,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-727182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-america-250","tag-native-americans-in-the-united-states","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-declaration-of-independence","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}