Anti-Amerindian sentiment

Anti-Amerindian sentiment is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against peoples indigenous to the American continents.

Quotes

 * Colonialism as a theory of relationships is embedded in power, voice, and legitimacy. In Canada, it has radicalized Aboriginal peoples’ identity, marginalized, and de-legitimized their knowledge and languages, and exploited their powerlessness in taking their lands.
 * Marie Battiste, Rita Bouvier, ''Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit, p. 106


 * Racism against Native Americans, like all racism, is gendered. White women were said to need protection from rape by Indian men, who were portrayed as sexual animals. Native American women were extolled when they served white men (i.e., Pocahontas, Sacajawea) and were otherwise portrayed as exotic, shy, and reserved sexual creatures. The attempted annihilation of Native Americans in the United States happened. It was systematic, sanctioned by all levels of society and carried out by ordinary citizens as well as by the military and state militias.
 * Paul Kivel, Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, p. 154


 * So persistent and widespread was Indian slavery that ending it proved nearly impossible. The Spanish Crown prohibited Native bondage under all circumstances in 1542, but the traffic continued. More than a century later, in the waning decades of the seventeenth century, the Spanish monarchs launched an empire-wide campaign to free all Indian slaves… Yet Indian slavery persisted.
 * Andres Resendez, ''The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, p. 8