In this Part 1, we begin to make the case for reparations for Native Americans - a case 500 years in the making. We shine a light on the displacement, colonization, and genocide by a U.S. government hellbent on ever more profits and power. We expose myths and lies we’ve all been fed to camouflage these crimes. What is the tab for destroying entire cultures, nations, and civilizations?
SHOW NOTES
BOOKS ON INDIGENOUS HISTORY AND RESISTANCE
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
- Nick Estes, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long History of Indigenous Resistance
- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
FURTHER READING
- More on the “Manifest Destiny” myth - here
- More on the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 - here
- More on the Buffalo Soldiers - here
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE:
o [4:50] Settler colonization and theft of Indigenous lands by U.S. government
o [7:51] Myth of “Manifest Destiny”
o [10:21] Role of treaties in perpetuating genocide and land theft
o [11:28] 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty and U.S. government’s violation
o [14:41] Myth of inevitability of U.S. genocide and land theft
o [21:19] Complex history between Native and Black Americans
o [26:06] Case for Native American reparations