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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939-     Subjects     Indians of North America -- Historiography.     Indians of North America -- Colonization.     Indians of North America -- Relocation.     Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History.     United States -- Colonization.     United States -- Race relations.     United States -- Politics and government.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939-       by title:      An indigenous people...       by call number:      970.00497 D899i     Search the Web     Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939-     Indians of North America -- Historiography.     Indians of North America -- Colonization.     Indians of North America -- Relocation.     Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History.     United States -- Colonization.     United States -- Race relations.     United States -- Politics and government.       MARC Display

An indigenous peoples' history of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. by Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939- Beacon Press, c2014. Call #: 970.00497 D899i Subjects Indians of North America -- Historiography.   Indians of North America -- Colonization.   Indians of North America -- Relocation.   Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History.   United States -- Colonization.   United States -- Race relations.   United States -- Politics and government. Series Revisioning American history. ISBN:  9780807000403 (hc.) 9780807057834 (pbk.) Description:  xiv, 296 p. ; 24 cm. Notes:  "Winner of the 2015 American Book Award"--Cover. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-279) and index. Contents:  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 -- The future of the United States. 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. 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. 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. 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. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. After receiving her PhD in history at the University of California at Los Angeles, she taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward. She is the author of The Great Sioux Nation, Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico, and All the Real Indians Died Off: and 20 other myths about Native Americans. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 970.00497 D899i Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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