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1. European Colonization
1.1. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio Whitaker “All the Real Indians Died Off
1.1.1. This source relays the myth that Native Peoples of the Americas disappeared after white settler colonialism. This erasure of modern and historic peoples works to invisibalize their presence to cover up harm being done.
1.2. Artist: Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
1.2.1. Juane Quick-To-See Smith is a modern artist out of Montana who is from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation. She uses mixed media to speak of colonialism imposing itself over tribal lands and shedding blood of natives peoples to perpetuate images of whiteness and compartmentalize and appropriate that of natives.