Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Notes

 For thousands of years before the European invasions the Americas were peopled by millions of natives who were here first.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism---the founding of a state based on the ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of African slavery, and a policy of genocide and land theft.

The author came to this perspective not in graduate school but in her studies outside of academia.

Would the diseases that the Europeans brought with them have genocided the natives by itself?  Although it was a powerful killer, diseases alone would not have done it, but added to colonializing violence, slavery, and trickery with the colonializing techniques already learned from European precedents, the natives never had chance.  P. 39-40