“Nearly all the population areas of the Americas were reduced by 90 percent following the onset of colonizing projects, decreasing the targeted Indigenous populations of the Americas from one hundred million to ten million. Commonly referred to as the most extreme demographic disaster – framed as natural – in human history, it was rarely called genocide until the rise of Indigenous movements in the mid-twentieth century forged questions.”

“Nearly all the population areas of the Americas were reduced by 90 percent following the onset of colonizing projects, decreasing the targeted Indigenous populations of the Americas from one hundred million to ten million. Commonly referred to as the most extreme demographic disaster – framed as natural – in human history, it was rarely called genocide until the rise of Indigenous movements in the mid-twentieth century forged questions.”

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz