An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People Quotes

“Research has shown that African American, Latino, or Indigenous communities are far more likely to be close to a landfill, coal-fired power plant, or other source of pollution than white middle-class or wealthy communities. This situation is called environmental racism.”
― Debbie Reese, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People

“So I realized it was crucial to make the reality and significance of indigenous people's survival clear throughout the book. Indigenous survival as peoples is due to centuries of resistance and storytelling passed through the generations and I sought to demonstrate that this survival is dynamic, not passive. Surviving genocide by whatever means - is resistence.”
― Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People

“Colonization is the process of taking political and economic control of a region, and colonizers are the people or institutions that are part of that process: the military, business interests, people who go there to live, and sometimes representatives of religious institutions.”
― Debbie Reese, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People