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“The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.”

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an American historian known for her research on Native American history. Born on September 10, 1939, she is a Native American woman whose work often focuses on the history, culture, and social issues of Native Americans. more

“The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions of individuals, as, for instance in Cambodia. Although clearly the Holocaust was the most extreme of all genocides, the bar set by the Nazis is not the bar required to be considered genocide. Most importantly, genocide does not have to be complete to be considered genocide.”

Mean Doe War Individual Term Millions Example Mass Murder Extremes Bars Instance Genocide Holocaust Nazi Cambodia

Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.”

Wells May Found Community Cases Policy Historical Genocide Documents Indigenous Oral History

Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.”

Men Children Age Female Males Soldier Pauses Assault Men Women Earnestness Extermination Vindictive

Author:William Tecumseh Sherman

“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.”

“I was just doing it for fun. I was in college recording music as a joke, so I really didn't think that a career was feasible - being able to travel.”

Thinking Able Fun Careers College Jokes Recording Music

Author:Cakes da killa

“I do realize that I have a talent for making music. It wasn't anything expected, but I do think it's deserved, if that makes sense.”

Ifs Thinking Realizing Talent Expected Make Sense

Author:Cakes da killa

“I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.”

Years School Fun College Serious High School Rap Senior Senior Year

Author:Cakes da killa

“I don't think it was much of a forum for positive or negative feedback; it was mainly, "How can I make somebody laugh?" It wasn't a serious thing where I needed people to give me feedback.”

People Thinking Giving Laughing Serious Needed Negative Give Me Feedback Forums Serious Things Negative Feedback

Author:Cakes da killa

“I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.”

Thinking Wanted Reviews Feedback Eulogy Pitchforks

Author:Cakes da killa

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