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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     School Library Journal 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, 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 D899ip 2019     Search the Web     Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939-     Indians of North America -- Historiography.     Indians of North America -- Colonization.     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 for young people / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ; adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese. by Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939- Beacon Press, c2019. Call #: 970.00497 D899ip 2019 Subjects Indians of North America -- Historiography.   Indians of North America -- Colonization.   Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History.   United States -- Colonization.   United States -- Race relations.   United States -- Politics and government. ISBN:  9781725420854 (hbk.) 1725420856 (hbk.) 9780807049396 (pbk.) 0807049395 (pbk.) Description:  ix, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Introduction: This land -- Follow the corn -- Culture of conquest -- Cult of the covenant -- Bloody footprints -- The birth of a nation -- Jefferson, Jackson, and the pursuit of indigenous homelands -- Sea to shining sea -- Indigenous lands become "Indian country" -- The persistence of sovereignty -- Indigenous action, indigenous rights -- "Water is life": indigenous resistance in the twenty-first century. Summary:  Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own place in history. Other authors:  Mendoza, Jean. Reese, Debbie, 1959- Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Young Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 970.00497 D899ip 2019 Ya Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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