An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States Ortiz

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oring the treaties the United States made with Indigenous nations,

by restoring all sacred sites, starting with the Black Hills and includ­

ing most federally held parks and land and all stolen sacred items

and body parts, and by payment of sufficient reparations for the

reconstruction and expansion of Native nations. In the process, the

continent will be radically reconfigured, physically and psychologi­

cally. For the future to be realized, it will require extensive educa­

tional programs and the full support and active participation of the

descendants of settlers, enslaved Africans, and colonized Mexicans,

as well as immigrant populations.

In the words of Acoma poet Simon Ortiz:

The fu ture will not be mad with loss and waste though the

memory will

Be there : eyes will become kind and deep, and the bones of

this nation

Will mend after the revolution. 41