Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Domestic Imperialism • Henry A. Wallace National Security Forum
From the earliest colonies, the US has been expanded its domestic empire and conquering native people. In our wake, we have left a bloody trail of tears, wars, relocations, epidemics and broken...
========== >> Sonali Kolhatkar: The United States'history of usurping landsand dominating the local
population began right hereat home with our treatment
of indigenous Americans.How does the U.S. use those
same tactics overseas?Welcome to the Henry A.
Wallace National Security Forum.I'm Sonali Kolhatkar.From the early European
colonies in the 15thand 16th centuries all the
way up to the Indian warsand the late 1800s, the
U.S. routinely invadedin occupied lands heldby indigenous peoples exploiting
natural resources, removing themfrom the land and
violating peace treaties.How has that history shaped
the way the U.S. interactswith the rest of the world.Joining me to answerthat question is Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz, former professorand author of An
Indigen...