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fail to mention that the United States at the time was invading, subjecting, colonizing, and removing the Indigenous farmers from their land, as it had since its founding and as it would through the nineteenth century. In ignoring that fundamental basis for US development as an imperialist power, they do not see that overseas empire was the logical
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As national liberation movements surged in European colonies in Africa and Asia, the United States responded with counterinsurgency. The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was formed in 1947 and expanded in size and global reach during the Eisenhower administration under director Allen Dulles,
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
US officials get tangled in the contradictions inherent in the attempt to legitimize empire building through the Doctrine of Discovery and the origin story of making a clear break from the British empire.
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
The latter was the goal of the 1956 Indian Relocation Act (Public Law 949). With BIA funding, any Indigenous individual or family could relocate to designated urban industrial areas—the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, Denver, Cleveland—where BIA offices were established to make housing and job training and placement available.
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Although the Senate subcommittee members finally agreed to the Taos claim by satisfying themselves that it was unique, it did in fact set a precedent.5 The return of Blue Lake as a sacred site begs the question of whether other Indigenous sacred sites remaining as national or state parks or as US Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management lands
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but they have no parallel in the monetary reparations owed, for example, to Japanese Americans for forced incarceration or to descendants of enslaved African Americans. No monetary amount can compensate for lands illegally seized, particularly those sacred lands necessary for Indigenous peoples to regain social coherence.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
hmmmm i dont really think internment or slavery can be adequately compensated by money either.......
“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 morehomo sacer: in Roman law, a person banned from society, excluded from its legal protections but still subject to the sovereign’s power.