Jerry Adams? No indigenous tribe - "his people" - had 100 million members to be raped and murdered. Unless he's identifying more broadly with all the native peoples worldwide, who suffered in excess of at least 250 million dead as a result of Euro-American colonialism. [Some experts say 'only' 25-50 million were killed, but anthropologists now believe it was probably at least 10 times that number]. There is a Native American called "Jerry Adams" (Nii K’an Kwsdins aka Jerry Adams), but I don't think he said that quote. https://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/news/nii-k-an-kwsdins-honoured-with-civic-award
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
Jerry Adams? No indigenous tribe - "his people" - had 100 million members to be raped and murdered. Unless he's identifying more broadly with all the native peoples worldwide, who suffered in excess of at least 250 million dead as a result of Euro-American colonialism. [Some experts say 'only' 25-50 million were killed, but anthropologists now believe it was probably at least 10 times that number]. There is a Native American called "Jerry Adams" (Nii K’an Kwsdins aka Jerry Adams), but I don't think he said that quote. https://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/news/nii-k-an-kwsdins-honoured-with-civic-award
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