AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

Découvrez et apprenez l'histoire des USA du point de vue de ceux qui étaient là avant.

Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck

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. They are all 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 she reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.

This book is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. Here, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States. She 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, 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. "The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them."( 1836, The Seminoles).

Spanning more than 400 years, this book radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted the narrative.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - 9780807057834 - 18€