Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the 16th century onward, blood flowed in battles of racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which has tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its Indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore, all exalt it.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
My belated education (see here) continues with
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous peoples’ history of the United States (2014).
Having outlined her own troubled family history and her path to activism and…
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Os EUA praticaram o genocídio quando abraçou a doutrina de que o americano original, o índio, era uma raça inferior, designaram muitas nações indígenas em nome do desenvolvimento, fato esse diante da negação aos nativos, nessa terra eles já viviam há séculos.
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Até que alguém escreveu a verdade sobre os povos nativos nós estadunidense. Eles destruíram toda a flora e fauna, de rescaldo destruíram as nações nativas. Colocaram em campos de concentrações. Eles eram procurados vivos ou mortos, não tinha outra opção, ou iam para os campos de concentração ou escolhiam morrer.
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