Between Quote by David Grann

The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“Without definitive expulsion of all the whites, violence would erupt again; it was just a matter of time. History had demonstrated graphically enough, on…

— Scott Wallace

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated…

— Evo Morales

"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder…

— Bartolome de las Casas

Indigenous peoples was messed over. It was like a tradition here. We broke every treaty with them that ever was written. I think Andrew…

— Dr. John

Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal…

— Gilberto Gil

“I could think of no better reason to applaud Brazil’s efforts—however flawed, enfeebled, or underfunded—to protect them. As the Possuelo-led sertanistas pointed out in…

— Scott Wallace

Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at…

— Rigoberta Menchu

“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

The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th…

— Tom Cole

“…but the image of a “fatal” disappearance of the “vanishing American” allows Indian ancestry - as opposed to African American “blood” - to function…

— Alessandro Portelli

It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will…

— Andrew Jackson