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Kyle Keeler (May 24, 2024).
"Wikipedia's Indian problem: settler colonial erasure of native American knowledge and history on the world's largest encyclopedia". Settler Colonial Studies. Retrieved May 26, 2024. Each of these tactics have been on display at the talk page for the 'Constitution of the United States,' which is missing a major piece of scholarly criticism: '"We the People" privileged white male landowners, excluded white women from the vote, and excluded slaves and American Indians from citizenship.' Western Shoshone historian Ned Blackhawk further explains that 'the Constitution excluded [Native people] and aided in their dispossession. … its framers worked to ensure Anglo-American supremacy over interior lands, Native peoples, and African American slaves. It became, in short, a constitution for colonialism.' Ostler has also shown that land ownership amongst the framers stemming from such dispossession strengthened their elite positions, as it 'would … ameliorate social class divisions and reinforce a common identity among free whites of racial superiority in relation both to African Americans … and Native Americans.' These points are repeated in reputable scholarship; however, they are absent from Wikipedia.