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A revolutionary working class must be able to acknowledge its enemy and eschew not only capitalism but also colonialism and imperialism.

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (2021)

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Lack of imagination also indicates lack of commitment for figuring it out.

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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.

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"A nation of immigrants" was a mid-twentieth-century revisionist origin story.

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

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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)

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