Her historical memoir, "Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie," tells that story. Her grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, was a member of the Oklahoma Socialist Party and Industrial Workers of the World. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. From the colonial period through the founding of states and continuing in the 21st century, this has entailed torture, terror, sexual abuse, massacres, systematic military occupations, removals of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral territories, forced removal of Native American children to military-like boarding schools, allotment, and policies of termination. US and Canadian history, as well as inherited Indigenous trauma, cannot be understood without dealing with the genocide committed against Indigenous peoples. This is the very definition of modern genocide. The objective of government authorities was to terminate the existence of Indigenous Peoples as peoples-not as random individuals. Land is life-or, at least, land is necessary for life.” The history of North America is a history of settler colonialism.
As anthropologist Patrick Wolfe has noted: “The question of genocide is never far from discussions of settler colonialism. Governmental policies and actions related to Indigenous peoples, though often termed “racist” or “discriminatory,” are rarely depicted as what they are: classic cases of imperialism and a particular form of colonialism-settler colonialism. Co-presented by the Institute for the Humanities at SFU and SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement.
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