The story tells us Europeans came to Turtle Island and colonized the original inhabitants— that they destroyed our culture— eradicated our language— removed us from the land and dispossessed us of our relationship with the Creator. The colonization story informs most of what people have to say about Indigenous Peoples. It is our rallying cry. It is what we resist.
- From The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era, pg. 26
-(timeline sources cited below)
"Revitalizing Ancestral Food Ways with Valerie Segrest." Youtube, uploaded by
WithinReachWA, Feb. 2022, youtu.be/QwivHEwXP6U?si=8N0r37nWWU7TDew6.
Accessed 11 June 2024. (Timeline of events)
"U.S. History Primary Source Timeline." Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/
colonial-settlement-1600-1763/. Accessed 11 June 2024. (Timeline of events)
"Settler colonialism refers to a history in which settlers drove indigenous populations from the land in order to construct their own ethnic and religious national communities. Settler colonies pursued policies of elimination rather than exploitation as they pushed indigenous populations further into the interior. Invariably, indigenous resistance produced often-indiscriminate violence and removal policies justified through tropes of racial superiority and national destiny."
-From America in the World, 1776 to the Present (cited & linked below)
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Hixson, Walter L. "Colonialism." America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History, edited by Edward J. Blum, vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2016, pp. 232-234. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3630800127/GVRL?u=aubu98092&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=54499de7. Accessed 6 June 2024.
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