by Roxanne DunbarOrtiz
Recommended by Margari Aziza
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Opens by retelling U.S. history from Indigenous perspectives, pairing archival detail with a sustained political critique of settler colonialism. Valuable as a corrective to textbook narratives: it documents dispossession, policy, and resistance, and links past acts to present institutions and public memory. Limits: a polemical tone and dense, repetitive documentation can feel heavy; readers expecting a neutral chronology or a breezy survey will chafe. Demands attention rather than casual skimming and offers depth for readers ready to sit with uncomfortable reckonings; it contains no hands-on exercises.
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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, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centurieslong genocidal program of the...
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