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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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