2015 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...
2015 Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today ...
Drawing on the stories she heard in her early years, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz explores the lives of poor rural whites in the USA who are often the backbone of the national campaigns against abortion and for prayer in school. They are also the soldiers of the militia movement and staunch critics of the US government. This book aims to take the reader into the minds of this group of people in order to understand their faith and sense of loss.
Drawing on the stories she heard in her early years, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz explores the lives of poor rural whites in the USA who are often the backbon...
