Ann Coulter is under fire after making a violent and hateful comment targeting Native Americans.
On Sunday, the far-right commentator reposted a 2023 video of Melanie Yazzie — a University of Minnesota professor and member of the Navajo Nation — speaking about decolonization and climate change. Coulter responded to the clip with a shocking statement: “We didn’t kill enough Indians.”
The post was quickly deleted, but not before it ignited outrage.
“Beyond abhorrent,” said Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. in a statement on Facebook. “Coulter’s statement, on its face, is a despicable rhetorical shot trained on the First Peoples of this continent, designed to dehumanize and diminish us and our ancestors and puts us at risk of further injury.”
Hoskin warned that Coulter’s words were part of a much larger and more dangerous pattern.
“We’ve faced enough of that since this country’s founding,” he said. “This kind of rhetoric has fueled the destruction of tribes, their life ways, languages and cultures, the violation of treaty rights, and the perpetuation of violence and oppression.”
He pointed out that this isn’t just one offensive comment — it’s the kind of language that leads to real harm. “The country frequently seems on the verge of political violence,” he wrote. “Coulter’s post implicitly encourages it.”
Hoskin urged people not to stay silent. “We can get used to the frequent attacks and watch silently as this group and that group is dehumanized and diminished,” he said. “Hatred in the public will become white noise, accepted as ‘just the way it is.’ Alternatively, we can speak out against it.”
“What Ann Coulter said is heartless, vicious and should be repudiated by people of good faith regardless of political philosophy or party,” he added. “Some things are simply wrong and we cannot validate it through our silence.”
Tasha Mousseau, Vice President of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, also spoke out.
She told KOSU radio: “In Indian country, either in the Western sense with education or taking our traditions back and learning our languages, we say that we are our ancestors’ wildest dreams. I would argue that she’s her ancestors’ wildest dreams. She is what colonizers would like to continue on in this country.”
Coulter has not responded publicly since deleting the post. But tribal leaders and advocates say that’s not enough. The damage has been done — and silence is not an option.
Here’s a screenshot of her post:
