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Activists’ efforts to end termination and secure restoration of land, particularly sacred sites, included Taos Pueblo’s sixty-four-year struggle with the US government to reclaim their sacred Blue Lake in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. In the first land restitution to any Indigenous nation, President Richard M. Nixon signed into
... See moreRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
To be sure, the problem for the American military was less [Islamic] fundamentalism than anarchy. The War on Terrorism was really about taming the frontier.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
“What kind of a world was this in which a man wakes up in the morning and does not go out of the house, instead sitting at a table or pacing from wall to wall, afraid to open the door? People woke up in the morning and opened their doors: some went to school, others to their place of work, another to shop, and yet another to gossip with their
... See moreThey said we must get civilized. I remember that word too. It means “be like the white man.”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
“the struggle is between the demands of the ‘i’ which has its needs and desires and the ‘we’ which presents its own demands. the cursed ‘i’ is incapable of anything!”
the trinity of fundamentals - wisam rafeedi
In one of the largest of the relocation destinations, the San Francisco Bay Area, this would culminate in the eighteen-month occupation of Alcatraz in the late 1960s.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
In hearings held in the preceding years by the Senate Subcommittee on Indian Affairs, members expressed fear of establishing a precedent in awarding land—based on ancient use, treaties, or aboriginal ownership—rather than monetary payment.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
“weakness is the loss of the ability to rebel, it is taking orders and being led around, it is the obliteration of the personality;”
the trinity of fundamentals - wisam rafeedie
he is talking about muna in the text but doesn't that describe him taking orders from the party to separate himself entirely for society?
The experience of generations of Native Americans in on- and off-reservation boarding schools, run by the federal government or Christian missions, contributed significantly to the family and social dysfunction still found in Native communities.