An indigenous peoples' history of the United States /

An indigenous peoples' history of the United States /

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 larg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2014]
Series:Revisioning American history.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Historiography.
Indians of North America > Colonization.
Indians of North America > Relocation.
Indians, Treatment of > United States > History.
Colonization.
Indians, Treatment of.
Political science.
Race relations.
United States > Colonization.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Politics and government.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • This land
  • Follow the corn
  • Culture of conquest
  • Cult of the covenant
  • Bloody footprints
  • The birth of a nation
  • The last of the Mohicans and Andrew Jackson's White Republic
  • Sea to shining sea
  • "Indian Country"
  • US triumphalism and peacetime colonialism
  • Ghost dance prophecy : a nation is coming
  • The doctrine of discovery
  • The future of the United States.