An indigenous peoples' history of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- author.
2014
E76.8 .D86 2014eb
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Title An indigenous peoples' history of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
Author Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- author.
ISBN 9780807000410 (electronic book)
0807000418 (electronic book)
9780807000403
080700040X
9780807057834
0807057835
Published Boston : Beacon Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages).
Call Number E76.8 .D86 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 970.004/97
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."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-279) and index.
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Series Revisioning American history.
Available in Other Form Indigenous peoples' history of the United States.
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Introduction : 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
Conclusion : the future of the United States.

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