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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 genocide.”

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

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

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

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