“warfare would be waged west of the Mississippi as it had been earlier against the Abenakis, Cherokees, Shawnees, Muskogees, and even Christian Indians. In the Civil War, these methods played a prominent role on both sides. Confederate regular forces, Confederate… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
“The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
“the convention, any one of five acts is considered genocide if “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
“histories. Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) historian Jean O’Brien names this practice of writing Indians out of existence “firsting and lasting.” All over the continent, local histories,… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
“Everything in US history is about the land—who oversaw and cultivated it, fished its waters, maintained its wildlife; who invaded and stole it; how… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
How will the family unit be destroyed? ...[T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
“warfare would be waged west of the Mississippi as it had been earlier against the Abenakis, Cherokees, Shawnees, Muskogees, and even Christian Indians. In… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
“The objective of US colonialist authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples—not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
“Settler colonialism, as an institution or system, requires violence or the threat of violence to attain its goals.” — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
“Multiculturalism became the cutting edge of post-civil-rights-movement US history revisionism. For this scheme to work—and affirm US historical progress—Indigenous nations and communities had to… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share
