In late October of 2022, the National Park Service posted notices around the McPherson Square encampments, where 50+ unhoused people live. The notice state that unhoused people are breaking NPS’s no camping law and the camps will be cleared by April 12, 2023. While they say unhoused residents will be offered housing and shelter services, we know these services are often inadequate, inhumane, and inaccessible. While housing and services should be at the front of discussions surrounding homelessness, they do not justify criminalization and eviction. Many of the people who now live in McPherson Square moved there after being evicted by the National Park Service from encampments at Union Station, Burke and Gompers, and others across the city, where no help, housing, or services were offered. In what follows we unpack the colonialist history of the National Parks Service and their role in the displacement and dispossession of unhoused people and their property in Washington DC