Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“the convention, any one of five acts is considered genocide if “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“histories. Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) historian Jean O’Brien names this practice of writing Indians out of existence “firsting and lasting.” All over the continent,…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“Everything in US history is about the land—who oversaw and cultivated it, fished its waters, maintained its wildlife; who invaded and stole…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

How will the family unit be destroyed? ...[T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“warfare would be waged west of the Mississippi as it had been earlier against the Abenakis, Cherokees, Shawnees, Muskogees, and even Christian…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“The objective of US colonialist authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples—not as random individuals. This is the very definition of…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“Settler colonialism, as an institution or system, requires violence or the threat of violence to attain its goals.”

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“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…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“this idea of the gift-giving Indian helping to establish and enrich the development of the United States is an insidious smoke screen…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“Andrew Jackson was the implementer of the final solution for the Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi. Andrew”

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“It’s not that Jackson had a “dark side,” as his apologists rationalize and which all human beings have, but rather that Jackson…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“The form of colonialism that the Indigenous peoples of North America have experienced was modern from the beginning: the expansion of European…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“There are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous communities and nations, comprising nearly three million people in the United States. These…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“A Georgia volunteer, afterward a colonel in the Confederate service, said: “I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz