An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Call Number: 970.5 Du, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / Native Americans / Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Time to tell the whole story . . . submitted by teri on August 12, 2019, 11:38am which includes the truth. As said, history is written by the winners, and native americans were not the winners in the Americas.
Dunbar-Ortiz attempts to include the other side of our history - which often conflicts with what we were - and are still being - taught. Prepare to be surprised, unsettled, and angered.

A wonderful, important, necessary, thought-provoking book submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 31, 2021, 9:56pm What’s amazing about this book: whatever you learned about American history, this book will re-write it more honestly to incorporate the true colonial nature of this country, and the brutal history it has against Indigenous people. I read this as part of a social activist book club (two chapters every two weeks, with people ages 30’s to 70’s) and we were all constantly amazed at what we didn’t know and needed to rewrite in our knowledge and framework. Most of us grew up watching Westerns & Roy Rogers, hearing stories of Daniel Boone and Kit Carson, and learning about Manifest Destiny. We all needed to rethink these.

What’s hard about this book: The amount of information and presentation style make this book as dense and dry as you can imagine. It’s every school history textbook that you read and hated. Fact, place, date, event ad nauseam. No one in the book club felt like (even at the rate of two chapters every two weeks) we could really re-tell the *content* of the chapters, just the general sense of them. It was hard to pull a cohesive story out of the chapters… and humans learn in stories, not dates and places.

We decided this was OK, however. What we got from this book is a rewrite of American history in a way that has changed our understanding of this country. I now read other books differently (science fiction about colonizing other planets doesn’t sit well). I will use this book as a reference book for specific content through the index as needed.

A hard read for the emotional distress of changing what you though you knew about the US. A slow read because it’s every textbook you didn’t want to read in school. And a wonderful, important, necessary, thought-provoking book that I would recommend to everyone because we need to know what’s inside.

Didn't quite live up to expectations submitted by foilista on July 7, 2023, 12:09pm An urgent and important book, and I'm glad I read it. However, I still felt as though this was a white-centric account of U.S. history. Dunbar-Ortiz aptly captures the atrocities of settler colonialism, and effectively connects them to contemporary U.S. imperialism and militarism, yet an Indigenous perspective was strangely absent from the text. Where were the Indigenous historians, activists, and community leaders?