AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Knowledge of history is an essential component of any kind of wisdom. I think we can all agree on that.

After all, knowing how we got here is a vital part of knowing where the hell we are, let alone having any idea of where we’re headed.

And Dunbar-Ortiz deftly & comprehensively pierces the veil of American mythology to uncover the truth about how the “New World” of North America was “settled” by European colonists.

Hint: It wasn’t new, and it was already settled.

We may have a idealistic Constitution, full of high-minded language, but our nation was actually built with blood, spilled over land that was fully-occupied by another civilization.

Like The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones,

like Native Nations by Kathleen Duval,

like Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy,

like We The People by Jill Lepore,

like Black AF History by Michael Harriot,

like America, América by Greg Grandin,

like The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk

(all of which I’ve read in the past year or so),

Dunbar-Ortiz’s book functions much like Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in being a well-argued corrective to the kind of hagiography that powers the white-supremacist populism that has flared up in the last decade or so (though honestly, it’s been present at the heart of everything since the first European came ashore).

I just wish more people would read these correctives, especially this one by Dunbar-Ortiz!

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