Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807013144
• Artikelnr.: 67414595

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Author's Note

Introduction: This Land

One: Follow the Corn

Two: Culture of Conquest

Three: Cult of the Covenant

Four: Bloody Footprints

Five: 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 Prophesy: A Nation is Coming

Eleven: The Doctrine of Discovery

Conclusion: The Future of the United States

Acknowledgments

Suggested Reading

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Rezensionen

This is an important book important for truth, important for justice, important for opening new dialogues, and important for addressing the continuing colonial domination of indigenous nations within the borders of the United States."
The Cherokee One Feather

Meticulously documented, this thought-provoking treatise is sure to generate discussion.
Booklist

What is fresh about the book is its comprehensiveness. Dunbar-Ortiz brings together every indictment of white Americans that has been cast upon them over time, and she does so by raising intelligent new questions about many of the current trends of academia, such as multiculturalism. Dunbar-Ortiz s material succeeds, but will be eye-opening to those who have not previously encountered such a perspective.
Publishers Weekly

From the struggles against the early British settlers in New England and Virginia to the final catastrophes at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, Dunbar-Ortiz never flinches from the truth.
CounterPunch

[An] impassioned history.... Belongs on the shelf next to Dee Brown s classic, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
San Francisco Chronicle

"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz s An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States helped me clarify my place in this country. It confirmed what had been told to me by my ancestors: that Indigenous peoples, from the North Pole to the South, have been here since before the world was known as round. As a conquering nation, the United States has rewritten history to make people of the U.S. forget our past as natives to this land. This is especially apparent in the Mexi-phobic, immigrant-phobic policies of our time.

"An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States (2014) helped me clarify my place in this country...This book is necessary reading if we are to move into a more humane future."
Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street

A must-read for anyone interested in the truth behind this nation s founding.
Veronica E. Velarde Tiller, PhD, Jicarilla Apache author, historian, and publisher of Tiller s Guide to Indian Country

This may well be the most important US history book you will read in your lifetime. . . . Dunbar-Ortiz radically reframes US history, destroying all foundation myths to reveal a brutal settler-colonial structure and ideology designed to cover its bloody tracks. Here, rendered in honest, often poetic words, is the story of those tracks and the people who survived bloodied but unbowed. Spoiler alert: the colonial era is still here, and so are the Indians.
Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams

Dunbar Ortiz s . . . assessment and conclusions are necessary tools for all Indigenous peoples seeking to address and remedy the legacy of US colonial domination that continues to subvert Indigenous human rights in today s globalized world.
Mililani B. Trask, Native Hawai ian international law expert on Indigenous peoples rights and former Kia Aina (prime minister) of Ka La Hui Hawai i

An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States provides an essential historical reference for all Americans. . . . The American Indians perspective has been absent from colonial histories for too long, leaving continued misunderstandings of our struggles for sovereignty and human rights.
Peterson Zah, former president of the Navajo Nation

An Indigenous Peoples History . . . pulls up the paving stones and lays bare the deep history of the United States, from the corn to the reservations. If the United States is a crime scene, as she calls it, then Dunbar-Ortiz is its forensic scientist. A sobering look at a grave history.
Vijay Prashad, author of Public Enemy

Justice-seekers everywhere will celebrate Dunbar-Ortiz s unflinching commitment to truth a truth that places settler-colonialism and genocide exactly where they belong: as foundational to the existence of the United States.
Waziyatawin, PhD, activist and author of For Indigenous Minds Only

Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awarenesses, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence. Bill Ayers

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz s Indigenous Peoples History of the United States is a fiercely honest, unwavering, and unprecedented statement, one which has never been attempted by any other historian or intellectual. The presentation of facts and arguments is clear and direct, unadorned by needless and pointless rhetoric, and there is an organic feel of intellectual solidity that provides weight and trust. It is truly an Indigenous peoples voice that gives Dunbar-Ortiz s book direction, purpose, and trustworthy intention. Without doubt, this crucially important book is required reading for everyone in the Americas!
Simon J. Ortiz, Regents Professor of English and American Indian Studies, Arizona State University

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes a masterful story that relates what the Indigenous peoples of the United States have always maintained: Against the settler U.S. nation, Indigenous peoples have persevered against actions and policies intended to exterminate them, whether physically, mentally, or intellectually. Indigenous nations and their people continue to bear witness to their experiences under the U.S. and demand justice as well as the realization of sovereignty on their own terms.
Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and author of Reclaiming Diné History