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“Ortiz doesn’t ignore the darker sides of Indian life and history, including Indian ownership of black slaves before the Civil War, but for the most part she points an accusatory finger at the settlers, soldiers, and US presidents who waged what she describes as genocidal warfare against foes labeled ‘savages’ and ‘barbarians.’"
- San Francisco Chronicle
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“Meticulously documented, this thought-provoking treatise is sure to generate discussion.”
- Booklist
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“Dunbar-Ortiz’s material succeeds, but will be eye-opening to those who have not previously encountered such a perspective.”
- Publishers Weekly
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“[An] impassioned history…Belongs on the shelf next to Dee Brown’s classic, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.”
- San Francisco Chronicle
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“An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States provides
an essential historical reference for all Americans. . . .The American
Indians’ perspective has been absent from colonial histories for too
long, leaving continued misunderstandings of our struggles for
sovereignty and human rights.”
- Peterson Zah, former president of the Navajo Nation
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“This may well be the most important US history book you will read in
your lifetime…Dunbar-Ortiz radically reframes US history,
destroying all foundational myths to reveal a brutal settler-colonial
structure and ideology designed to cover its bloody tracks. Here,
rendered in honest, often poetic words, is the story of those tracks and
the people who survived—bloodied but unbowed. Spoiler alert: the
colonial era is still here, and so are the Indians.”
- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams
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“An Indigenous Peoples’ History…pulls up the paving stones
and lays bare the deep history of the United States, from the corn to
the reservations. If the United States is a ‘crime scene’, as she calls
it, then Dunbar-Ortiz is its forensic scientist. A sobering look at a
grave history.”
- Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations
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Meticulously documented, this thought-provoking treatise is sure to generate discussion.
- Booklist