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Aug 11, 2015 · Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues.
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 ...
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OCLC. 868199534. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a non-fiction book written by the historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and published by Beacon Press. It is the third of a series of six ReVisioning books which reconstruct and reinterpret U.S. history from marginalized peoples' perspectives. [1]
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Sep 16, 2014 · Without doubt, this crucially important book is required reading for everyone in the Americas!” —Simon J. Ortiz, Regents Professor of English and American Indian Studies, Arizona State University “Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes a masterful story that relates what the Indigenous peoples of the United States have always maintained: Against the ...
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Oct 3, 2023 · An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Beacon Press, Oct 3, 2023 - History - 328 pages. New York Times Bestseller. This American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history. A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO ...
Sep 16, 2014 · 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.With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and ...
