Goals Quote by 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 of modern…

— 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 Indigenous Peoples.…

— 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 national, ethnical,…

— 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, local histories,…

— 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 it; how…

— 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 to spread…

— 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 women can…

— 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 Indians. In…

— 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 ideology behind…

— 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