An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

by Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
ISBN: 9780807057834
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2015 Recipient of the American Book Award

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.

In An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: "The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them."

Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples' history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
  • ISBN: 9780807057834
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.80 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 320
  • Publication Year: 2015
Language: English

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    Chris S. - 3 months ago

    A must read for anyone who wants to have a fuller understanding of our colonial past and what is needed to hear.

  • Indigenous History

    Hawthorn M. - 5 years ago

    Arrived quickly, as described. An excellent supplement to any history education.

  • Very important information in this time of seeking racial justice. A real eye opener.

    HPB S. - 5 years 4 months ago

    An eye opener. Ties together some things that have floated around the edges of my mind (Did indigenous people just basically let settlers take over the lands? What exactly was Manifest Destiny? etc.) and brought to light a lot that I did not know. Raised questions. Why did it take until about the last year for the largest newspaper in the state to assign an indigenous reporter to report regularly on indigenous peoples and reservation issues here in ARIZONA?

  • Incredible, Foundational Book! Read this!

    Kendall B. - 5 years 9 months ago

    An excellent and foundational book everyone should read to understand the history of indigenous people in this land. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a phenomenal, moving writer.