An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

by Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

• ISBN13: 9780807013076
• ISBN10: 0807013072
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780807013144
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-10-03
• Publisher: Beacon Press
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Summary

New York Times Bestseller

This American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history
 
A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes, directed by Raoul Peck, this 10th anniversary edition of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States includes both a new foreword by Peck and a new introduction by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Unflinchingly honest about the brutality of this nation’s founding and its legacy of settler-colonialism and genocide, the impact of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s 2014 book is profound. This classic is revisited with new material that takes an incisive look at the post-Obama era from the war in Afghanistan to Charlottesville’s white supremacy-fueled rallies, and from the onset of the pandemic to the election of President Biden. Writing from the perspective of the peoples displaced by Europeans and their white descendants, she centers Indigenous voices over the course of four centuries, tracing their perseverance against policies intended to obliterate them.

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. With a new foreword from Raoul Peck and a new introduction from Dunbar Ortiz, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.

Big Concept Myths
That America's founding was a revolution against colonial powers in pursuit of freedom from tyranny
That Native people were passive, didn’t resist and no longer exist
That the US is a “nation of immigrants” as opposed to having a racist settler colonial history

Author Biography

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, and is the author or editor of many books, including Not “A Nation of Immigrants.”Winner of the American Book Award (2015). She lives in San Francisco. Connect with her at reddirtsite.com or on Twitter @rdunbaro.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Tenth-Anniversary Edition, by Raoul Peck

Introduction to the Tenth-Anniversary Edition

INTRODUCTION
This Land

ONE
Follow the Corn

TWO
Culture of Conquest

THREE
Cult of the Covenant

FOUR
Bloody Footprints

FIVE
The Birth of a Nation

SIX
The Last of the Mohicans and Andrew Jackson’s White Republic

SEVEN
Sea to Shining Sea

EIGHT
“Indian Country”

NINE
US Triumphalism and Peacetime Colonialism

TEN
Ghost Dance Prophecy: A Nation Is Coming

ELEVEN
The Doctrine of Discovery

CONCLUSION
The Future of the United States

Acknowledgments
Suggested Reading
More Suggested Readings
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author