An Indigenous Peoples’ Historical past of america (REVISIONING HISTORY Ebook 3)

Now a part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All of the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck

2015 Recipient of the American Ebook Award

The primary historical past of america instructed from the angle of indigenous peoples

 
As we speak in america, there are greater than 5 hundred federally acknowledged Indigenous nations comprising practically three million folks, descendants of the fifteen million Native individuals who as soon as inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial routine has largely been omitted from historical past. Now, for the primary time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz provides a historical past of america instructed from the angle of Indigenous peoples and divulges how Native People, for hundreds of years, actively resisted enlargement of the US empire.

With rising help for actions such because the marketing campaign to abolish Columbus Day and exchange it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Entry Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ Historical past of america is an important useful resource offering historic threads which can be essential for understanding the current. In An Indigenous Peoples’ Historical past of america, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding fable of america and exhibits how coverage towards the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to grab the territories of the unique inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this coverage was praised in in style tradition, via writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and within the highest places of work of presidency and the navy. Shockingly, because the genocidal coverage reached its zenith below President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was finest articulated by US Military common Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The nation could be rid of them solely by exterminating them.”
 
Spanning greater than 4 hundred years, this traditional bottom-up peoples’ historical past radically reframes US historical past and explodes the silences which have haunted our nationwide narrative.

An Indigenous Peoples' Historical past of america is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.