An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Description
Rewriting the United States through Indigenous eyes, this landmark history traces how settler colonialism shaped the nation’s laws, borders, and everyday realities. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myths of American exceptionalism by showing that policies toward Native peoples were not incidental “failures,” but deliberate strategies to seize land, displace communities, and suppress resistance. Spanning centuries of conflict and organizing, the book highlights Indigenous survival and active resistance as central—rather than peripheral—to the making of the U.S. With a historian-activist’s clarity and urgency, Dunbar-Ortiz also examines how violence was normalized and celebrated in government, military thinking, and popular culture.
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paperback
Beacon Press
Published Jan 1, 2014
296 pages
ISBN: 9780807000403
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First Published
2014
Language
eng
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