An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning History Book 3)

2015 Recipient of the American Book Award

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples
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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 Peoplesâ€™ 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: â€œThe country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.â€
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Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoplesâ€™ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.
Country USA
Manufacturer Beacon Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-09-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Beacon Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-09-16
Format	Kindle eBook

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning History Book 3)

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