My hope is that this book will be a springboard to dialogue about history, the present reality of Indigenous peoples' experience, and the meaning and… - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"A nation of immigrants" was a mid-twentieth-century revisionist origin story.

(Thanksgiving has) never been about honoring Native Americans. It’s been about the origin story of the United States, the beginning of genocide, dispossession and constant warfare from that time—actually, from 1607 in Jamestown—until the present. It’s a colonial system that was set up. 2016)

The fact is that it was a revolutionary surge that opened the political space to allow for the blossoming of cultural and social creativity that couldn't be reversed, even after the political movement itself had been repressed. That was the 1960s I knew. (Prologue)