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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

What changes about American history when it is told through the Indigenous peoples of the land and the empire built on it?

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Author
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

Why read it

  • You will drop the idea that the Americas were a new world waiting to be settled
  • You will read the founding story of the United States from the side of the peoples whose land it took
  • You will weigh the author's case that honoring treaties and restoring sacred sites is where the future starts

Who it is for

  • Americans who learned a one sided story in school
  • Teachers building a fuller history course
  • Readers seeking context for land and treaty disputes

Contents

  1. THIS LAND
  2. FOLLOW THE CORN
  3. CULTURE OF CONQUEST
  4. CULT OF THE COVENANT
  5. BLOODY FOOTPRINTS
  6. THE BIRTH OF A NATION
  7. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS AND ANDREW JACKSON’S WHITE REPUBLIC
  8. SEA TO SHINING SEA
  9. “INDIAN COUNTRY”
  10. US TRIUMPHALISM AND PEACETIME COLONIALISM
  11. GHOST DANCE PROPHECY
  12. A NATION IS COMING
  13. THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY
  14. THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES

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