EAN: 9780807057834

AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE UNITED STA...

2015 Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the
perspective of indigenous peoples 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  for the
first time  acclaimed 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 adroitly 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. Shockingly  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.

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