“How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible for what their ancestors did, they are responsible for the society they live in, which is a product of that past. Assuming this responsibility provides a means of survival and liberation. Everyone and everything in the world is affected, for the most part negatively, by US dominance and intervention, often violently through direct military means or through proxies.” Human RightsGenocideUs HistoryColonizationEmpireIndigenous Peoples Author: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. Only four members of the assembly voted in opposition, all of them Anglo settler-states - the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.” CanadaAustraliaColonialismUnited States Of AmericaUnited NationsNew ZealandSettlersIndigenous Peoples Book:An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Source: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
