Continuing this series of quotes and related questions from An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz as I make my way through the book while taking part in a Zoom book group with East Suburban Unitarian Universalist Church in Murrysville …


As a birthplace of agriculture and the towns and cities that followed, America is ancient, not a “new world.”

FROM “Chapter One: Follow the Corn” IN AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES BY ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ

Can you even begin to imagine in your own mind why anyone would show up in a land they’d never been to before, find it teeming with people and civilization, and proceed to label it a “new world”?