An indigenous peoples' history of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- author.

Series:

• Revisioning American history
• ReVisioning American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Indians of North America--Historiography.
• Indians of North America--Colonization.
• Indians, Treatment of--United States--History.
• Colonization.
• Indians, Treatment of.
• History.
• United States--Colonization.
• United States--Race relations.
• United States.
• Race relations.
• United States--Politics and government.
• Politics and government.
• Social sciences--Ethnic Studies--Native American Studies.
• Indians, North American.
• Indians, North American--history.
• Race Relations.
• Historiography.

Medical Subjects:

• Indians, North American.
• Indians, North American--history.
• Race Relations.
• Historiography.
• United States.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 296 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [2014]

Summary:

"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 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 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. 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."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

• This land
• Follow the corn
• Culture of conquest
• Cult of the covenant
• Bloody footprints
• The birth of a nation
• The last of the Mohicans and Andrew Jackson's White Republic
• Sea to shining sea
• "Indian Country"
• US triumphalism and peacetime colonialism
• Ghost dance prophecy : a nation is coming
• The doctrine of discovery
• The future of the United States.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-279) and index.
• American Book Awards, Winner, 2015

ISBN:

• 9780807000403
• 080700040X
• 9780807057834
• 0807057835
• 9781725420854
• 1725420856

OCLC:

868199534