Dunbar_Ortizintro to Indigenous peoples history

Author: historian, read a lot of stuff, said that none of them gave him the perspective he got from experience had a rough childhood

*We are here to educate, not forgive. We are here to enlighten, not accuse.* - Willie Johns

• people did bad things
  • learning and knowing the hist is "both a nessesity and a responsibility to the ancestors and descendatns of all parties."
• "everything in US history is about the land" what?? is it? what about laws, or the concepts, or the market??
  • could make a "everything stems from" arg but that's awfully reductionistic
• argues that reconciliation is not visible in modern day
  • but arnt we getting better?
  • says not even in utopian dreams – people dont want it to be better?

• how might ackknowloging the reality of US history work to transform society? That is the central question this book pursues.

• original narratives were puritan settlers had a covenant with god to take the land
• postmodernist studies called for agency "under the guise of indivudual and collective emporwment" blaming the bad of colonialism on the natives
• post-civil-rights multiculturalism means no indigenous communites?
• all meant to disguise the fact that the existence of america is based on the looting of the entire continent
  • wait isnt that how land works?

**Man·i·fest Des·tin·y**

_noun_

1.  the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• multiculturalism: manifest destiny won
• def of modern genocide: terminate survival as peoples
  • premodern: extreme violence without the goal of extincshtion
• united states is a result of the colonial process

if there was no one here, how different would it be?
would america not be successful?

• natives survived and hold their hist
• argues that postmodernism and multiculturalism emerged from neocolonialism?
• fundemental prob: absence of colonial framework?
• says, US did economic penetration of native societis, and made them economicaly dependent
  • imbalance of trade
  • incorporated natives into spheres of influence
  • controlled them with christian missionaries and alchohal?
• eatin food….

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