“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
“Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.” PeopleCountryWholeSeemsProcessWealthPayBehindsFateModernCivilizationCrossesGoldBasesMadnessMethodRationalIdeologyVillageInvestorsAccumulationMonarchyFeverIdeologicalColonizationSettlersInhumane Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesColonialismSettlers Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.” PeopleWayStillsStatesGovernmentAmericaIndividualLeftCommunityHistoricalNativeConsiderationImmigrantsDay To DayIndigenousBenevolenceDescendantsNorth AmericaRelicsIndigenous PeopleDay LifeDay To Day LifeSettlers Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
