An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (10th Anniversary Edition) (ReVisioning History)

ISBN: 0807013072

Author: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

Condition: New

New York Times BestsellerThis American Book Award winning titleabout Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US historyA 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 nations founding and its legacy of settler-colonialism and genocide, the impact of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortizs 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 Charlottesvilles 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 MythsThat America's founding was a revolution against colonial powers in pursuit of freedom from tyrannyThat Native people were passive, didnt resist and no longer existThat the US is a nation of immigrants as opposed to having a racist settler colonial history