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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

This person is the author of An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States. She is an author, researcher, and professor of Native American studies. As a woman of Native American descent, she has participated in a variety of pro-Native civil rights movements.

Pre-colonial Natives

These individuals lived in the region that eventually became the United States. Contrary to popular belief, their lifestyle was not primitive. They build complex societies, cultivating crops and building advances structures.

John Calvin

A French theologian, this person influenced sixteenth-century religious reform. He proposed the concept of ‘predestination’, a belief structure that eventually supported wealth as a sign of religious purity. His theories were used to reinforced settler-colonialist policies.

Ulster-Scots

Also known as Scotch-Irish, this group of people played an instrumental role in U.S. settler colonialism. They helped England colonize Ireland and acted as frontier settlers during Britain's colonization of North...

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