From Indigenous Socialism to Colonial Capitalism, Examining Native History of a Settler State
Colonialism, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz tells Laura Flanders, served as "an
escape valve." Peasants thrown off their lands with the enclosure of the
commons were assuaged with an offer of land "where they could be lord,"
she says. But poor settlers too were "duped."
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous People's History of the United States. (Screen grab via GRITtv)
