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Quotes from An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

born 1939 United States

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A number of independent nation-states with seats in the United Nations have less territory and smaller populations than some Indigenous nations of North America.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

In the case of US settler colonialism, land was the primary commodity.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

Surviving genocide, by whatever means, is resistance: non-Indians must know this in order to more accurately understand the history of the United States. (Author's Note)

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

"Colonization," "dispossession," "settler colonialism," "genocide"-these are the terms that drill to the core of US history, to the very source of the country's existence. (Author's Note)

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

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 it became a commodity ("real estate") broken into pieces to be bought and sold on the market.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.