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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.
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.
Introduction: This Land
One: Follow the Corn
Two: Culture of Conquest
Three: Cult of the Covenant
Four: Bloody Footprints
Five: Birth of a Nation
Six: The Last of the Mohicans and Andrew Jackson’s White Republic
Seven: Sea to Shining Sea
Eight: “Indian Country”
Nine: US Triumphalism and Peacetime Colonialism
Ten: Ghost Dance Prophesy: A Nation is Coming
Eleven: The Doctrine of Discovery
Conclusion: The Future of the United States
Acknowledgments
Suggested Reading
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780807057834 |
| ISBN-10: | 0807057835 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne |
| Hersteller: |
Random House LLC US
Beacon Press |
| Maße: | 226 x 151 x 26 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.08.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,475 kg |
Introduction: This Land
One: Follow the Corn
Two: Culture of Conquest
Three: Cult of the Covenant
Four: Bloody Footprints
Five: Birth of a Nation
Six: The Last of the Mohicans and Andrew Jackson’s White Republic
Seven: Sea to Shining Sea
Eight: “Indian Country”
Nine: US Triumphalism and Peacetime Colonialism
Ten: Ghost Dance Prophesy: A Nation is Coming
Eleven: The Doctrine of Discovery
Conclusion: The Future of the United States
Acknowledgments
Suggested Reading
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780807057834 |
| ISBN-10: | 0807057835 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne |
| Hersteller: |
Random House LLC US
Beacon Press |
| Maße: | 226 x 151 x 26 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.08.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,475 kg |
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