Paper Genocide the Legal Erasure of Indigenous People 

PAPER GENOCIDE

The Legal Erasure of Indigenous People

What if the biggest act of erasure in American history…

was done with paperwork instead of weapons?

Not through war.
Not through exile.
But through reclassification, documentation, and law.

For generations, millions of people have been told who they are—
not by ancestry…
but by systems designed to redefine them.

Birth certificates.
Census records.
Legal categories.

What if those documents didn’t just record identity…
but rewrote it?