An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Name: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
ISBN: 9781494577056

Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 10 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/18/2014

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Native & Indigenous History, Native & Indigenous Nonfiction

Synopsis

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 U.S. settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history.

Roxanne 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 and in the highest offices of government and the military.

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

About Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an American historian, writer, and feminist. She is the author of The Great Sioux Nation, Caught in the Crossfire, Roots of Resistance, and Blood on the Border. She is the Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Miranda on March 06, 2021

Warning: Only read this is you are prepared for just about your entireelementary-middle-high school education shattered. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has taken the history of the United States and told it through its very first residents - the Indigenous nations. She begins by establishing what life was......more

Goodreads review by Brad on August 27, 2016

I'll keep this simple: if you read this exceptionally researched and beautifully written book and still think the United States is great or has ever been great, you need to take a long hard look in your mirror, then ask your god for forgiveness.......more

Goodreads review by Always on January 14, 2022

I got this book as a gift from a friend and I feel really grateful. I don't want to say I enjoyed the book per se because I didn't really. It was quite hard reading about all the ugly things we've done as a country to the indigenous people here and everywhere honestly. Most of these things I hadn't......more

Goodreads review by Cherisa on January 08, 2024

How to explode self-justifying mythologies with evidence. Wow, Dunbar-Ortiz gives an eye-opening narrative of the creation of the United States from the perspective of the peoples displaced by Europeans and their white descendants. In many ways, it's a "Trail of Broken Treaties," but more than that......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on September 14, 2024

A rare survey history that I would’ve loved to have been 3x longer. The weaving of history along with the philosophy of historical approach was critical and inspiring......more