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

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

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

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

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“the convention, any one of five acts is considered genocide if “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in…

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“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, monuments, and signage narrate the story of first settlement: the founder(s), the first school, first dwelling, first everything, as if there had never been occupants who thrived in those places before Euro-Americans.”

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“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…

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

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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…

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

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

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“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…

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

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