A Settler Colonial State / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The project of British and United States settler-colonialism in North America sought to eliminate Indigenous communities and polities in order to appropriate their land for European settlement and for slave-based commercial agriculture. It is not a moment in time, rather a process that continued from first settlement in 1607 and is not yet complete. This process defines the construction of socio-political-economic institutions in the United States. With the Anglo settler use of violent genocidal policies, every inch of present US territory was contested by Indigenous resistance, resulting in a martial society with uncommon private ownership of firearms as well as aggressive militarism.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward and the author of An Indigenous People's History of the United States.
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