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New York Times bestseller
Now part of the HBO documentary series “Destroy All Beasts,” written and directed by Raoul Peck
American Book Award Winner
The first American history told from an indigenous perspective
Today, there are more than 500 federally recognized Native Nations in the United States, with a population of nearly 3 million, who are descendants of the 15 million First Nations who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of American settler colonial rule has been largely forgotten by history. Now, for the first time, renowned historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortizoffers tells the history of the United States from an indigenous perspective, revealing how Native Americans actively resisted the U.S. over centuries. The expansion of empire.
As support grows for movements such as the movement to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protests led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Native American History is an important resource for providing history. Clues crucial to understanding the present. In “Native American History,” Dunbar-Ortiz deftly challenges America’s founding myths and shows how policies toward Native peoples were colonial, designed to seize their territories and dislodge or exterminate them. them. As Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, the policy was praised in popular culture by writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, as well as at the highest levels of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its peak under President Andrew Jackson, its brutality was best illustrated by U.S. Army General Thomas S. Jesup, who in 1836 Writing of the Seminoles, “The state can only destroy them by destroying them.”
Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up people’s history fundamentally reshapes American history and breaks the silence that plagues our national narrative.
“Native American History” won the 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
Publisher : Beacon Press; Reprint (August 11, 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 312 pages
ISBN-10 : 0807057835
ISBN-13 : 978-0807057834
Lexile Measurement : 1220L
Item Weight : 1.05 lbs
Dimensions : 5.95 x 0.89 x 8.97 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book well-written and accessible. They appreciate the informative content, including facts about indigenous cultures. The visuals are described as vivid and eye-opening. Opinions differ on the authenticity of the account, with some finding it truthful and revealing while others feel it’s not honest.
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