About: De-Colonize America by July 4, 2076. Suggestions for a “Land Back” Movement in the USA . . . beyond empty “Land Acknowledgement” statements.
This is Common Sense 2.0, an update to Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet. By the 300th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the de-colonization process started in 1776 needs to be completed with the return of territorial sovereignty to its Indigenous peoples.
In 2026, as the nation celebrated its 250th year, European colonists still retained full control over America’s natural resources, its economy and political decision-making, despite growing recognition of major failures. In July 1776, about 10 million “Indians” lived in what is now the United States. By 1900, 95% were gone, mostly victims of smallpox, sometimes deliberately spread as a war tactic.
But decimating a people by disease does not extinguish its right to a homeland.
Here are three step-by-step strategies for how such a transformation might unfold, drawn from the author’s experience as a news reporter covering de-colonization as it played out in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique.
Author Jeff Radford: Jeff is a former Associated Press World Desk editor in its New York headquarters, and news reporter for The Toronto Star in Latin America and Africa, where he focused on de-colonization in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rhodesia-Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique. Radford was a Fulbright Scholar in Venezuela and a Fellow of the Inter-American Press Association in Brazil. He published a community newspaper in New Mexico from 1982 to 2022.
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