Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

[niyad]

Ed Mays
Published on Sep 9, 2015
Today, in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized indigenous communities and nations comprising nearly three million people. These individuals are the descendants of the millions of people who inhabited this land and are the subject of the latest book by noted historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the indigenous peoples was genocidal and imperialist--designed to crush the original inhabitants. Spanning more than three hundred years, this classic bottom-up history significantly re-frames how we view our past. Told from the viewpoint of the indigenous, it reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the U.S. empire.


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[TBA]

1. I've spent my adult life learning the real history

of this nation. This book is required reading IMO.

Learn the truth.

[niyad]

2. exactly!!!