An Indigenous Peoples’ his of the United States

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The first his 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 his.
Now| for the first time| acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a his 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’ his 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’ his radically reframes US his and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.