An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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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, for the first time, acclaimed 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. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly 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. Shockingly, 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.

subjects: Historiography,  Native American Studies,  Geschichtsschreibung,  Government relations,  Alternative Press Collection,  Native Americans,  Immigration and emigration,  History,  Politics and government,  Race relations,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Indians of North America,  Colonization,  Indianer,  Nordamerikas indianer,  Ethnic Studies,  Treatment of Indians,  Relocation,  Indians of north america, history,  Indians, treatment of,  United states, race relations,  United states, politics and government,  Political science,  North American Indians,  Attitudes envers les Indiens d'Amérique,  Histoire,  Relations raciales,  Politique et gouvernement,  Indiens d'Amérique,  Historiographie,  Native American,  LAW,  Constitutional,  Public,  Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies),  Genocide & War Crimes,  United States of America,  Indians,  Indigenous peoples,  Colonialism,  Race and nationality,  Population transfers,  Territorial expansion,  Politics,  University of South Alabama,  nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2021-12-19,  New York Times bestseller,  United states, history,  Indians of north america--historiography,  Indians of north america--colonization,  Indians of north america--relocation,  Indians, treatment of--history,  Indians, treatment of--united states--history,  E76.8 .d86 2014,  970.004/97