Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
An indigenous peoples' history of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Boston Beacon Press 2014 - xiv, 296 pages 24 cm - ReVisioning American history .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-279) and index.
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.
"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." Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples' history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative."--Publisher's description
0807057835 9780807057834
40024073188
2013050262
016890550 Uk
Indigenous peoples--History.--United States
Indigenous peoples--Historiography.--United States
Indians of North America--Historiography.
Indians of North America--Colonization.
Racism against indigenous peoples--History.--United States
Indians, Treatment of--History.--United States
Indians of North America.
Historiography.
Social science--Ethnic Studies--Native American Studies.
Race Relations
Social Science--Ethnic Studies--Native American Studies.
Racism against indigenous peoples.
Indians of North America.
Colonization.
Indians, Treatment of.
Politics and government.
Race relations.
United States of America.
Indians.
Race and nationality.
Population transfers.
Territorial expansion.
Politics.
History.
Native Americans--Government relations--United States.
Native Americans.
United States--Colonization.
United States--Race relations.
United States--Politics and government.
United States
USA
United States--Immigration and emigration.
United States--Politics and government.
E76.8 / .D86 2014
970.00497 Dun 15
WZ 80.5 .I3 / D899i 2014
An indigenous peoples' history of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Boston Beacon Press 2014 - xiv, 296 pages 24 cm - ReVisioning American history .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-279) and index.
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.
"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." Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples' history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative."--Publisher's description
0807057835 9780807057834
40024073188
2013050262
016890550 Uk
Indigenous peoples--History.--United States
Indigenous peoples--Historiography.--United States
Indians of North America--Historiography.
Indians of North America--Colonization.
Racism against indigenous peoples--History.--United States
Indians, Treatment of--History.--United States
Indians of North America.
Historiography.
Social science--Ethnic Studies--Native American Studies.
Race Relations
Social Science--Ethnic Studies--Native American Studies.
Racism against indigenous peoples.
Indians of North America.
Colonization.
Indians, Treatment of.
Politics and government.
Race relations.
United States of America.
Indians.
Race and nationality.
Population transfers.
Territorial expansion.
Politics.
History.
Native Americans--Government relations--United States.
Native Americans.
United States--Colonization.
United States--Race relations.
United States--Politics and government.
United States
USA
United States--Immigration and emigration.
United States--Politics and government.
E76.8 / .D86 2014
970.00497 Dun 15
WZ 80.5 .I3 / D899i 2014