Posted: September 7th, 2022

Indigenous People’s History Text: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States What does Dunbar-Ortiz (the author) mean by “culture of conquest

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Chapter 2 Indigenous People’s History
Text: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States
What does Dunbar-Ortiz (the author) mean by “culture of conquest”? Provide examples from the text.
At the beginning of chapter two Dunbar-Ortiz cites Karl Marx (this should be familiar to everyone). What is the significance of that quote? How does it relate to colonialism?
Discuss the factors that lead Europeans to take up settler colonialism.
According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what was the purpose of ‘the enclosures’?
What is white supremacy?
What does white supremacy have to do with colonialism?
Doctrine of Discovery Video

What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
How does it relate to colonialism?
Why did Europeans Enslave Africans? (video)

What was the transatlantic slave trade?
What were the main drives for slavery?
Why did Africans become the primary source for slave labor?
How did chattel slavery differ from previous forms of slavery?
Was slavery originally based on skin color?
When did the enslavement of Africans by Europeans begin?
Take a look at Historical Context: Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery and Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade.
Historical Context: Facts about the Slave Trade:
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery#:~:text=Africans%20carried%20to%20North%20America,directly%20to%20British%20North%20America.
Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/atlantic-slave-trade-history-animated-interactive.html
Where were most enslaved Africans taken?
What other observations did you make?