The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Settler colonialism, as an institution or system, requires violence or the threat of violence to attain its goals.” — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
![“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 begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically…” quote by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/046/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-24305_community_how-will-the-family-unit-be-destroyed-t_1560275.jpg)
