New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck 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 ...
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New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck 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. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. 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. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
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Although this book purports to be a history, much of documented Native American history is absent from her diatribe. This book is more akin to a memoir than a history, as the author is herself Native American, and frequently speaks from her own experience. It is an angry book written by an equally angry author. Be warned that it is subjective and much of it speculative. The assertions may be true but Dunbar-Ortiz doesn't worry about supporting many of her contentions with facts. However, if you are looking for a complete history of the Native Americans in the United States, look elsewhere, because you won't find it here. Almost entirely absent are the earlier histories and encounters by indigenous tribes of British colonial conflict and subjugation in the 1600s into the mid-1700s, of the Eastern Woodlands. So, there is no mention of the Montauks, Pequots, Lenni-Lenape, and only brief mention of the Delaware for a brief period in the Revolutionary War period, which is pretty late in their habitation. There is also no mention of the Mandan, or any contributions by Elizabeth Fenn. There is, however, substantial coverage of the Central American tribes and Mexico, which are not part of the United States, despite the book's title and apparent purpose. Dunbar-Ortiz does provide more coverage of modern Native American issues and encounters, along with assertions that are seemingly personal about the transgressions of the European inhabitants, but again, many of these are without any documented support. They do fill the imagination with possibility, but that is not history. However, if you are looking for a complete history of the Native Americans in the United States, this will not provide it. Even the pre-European accounts of indigenous populations appear to be speculations about what was believed to have happened without backing, or is now a tradition that has been extended well into the past, without any documentary support. At best, this book is very disappointing. Purchase it if you want modern political insight into speculations about what happened in the past. Ironically, it has fairly extensive Notes, Works Cited and Index sections to continue your research, so that may provide some value to interested readers or researchers. Just don't be surprised or disappointed when you are searching for historical coverage that you cannot find, which will undoubtedly happen. It is woefully incomplete. I have warned you.
