This month we will talk about An Indigenous Peoples' History of th e United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
\n"Today in the Un ited States\, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indige nous nations comprising nearly three million people\, descendants of the f ifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-l ong genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist \;Roxanne Dunbar-Orti z offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indig enous peoples and reveals how Native Americans\, for centuries\, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. In An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States\, Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myth of the Unite d States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was coloniali st and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants\, dis placing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals\, this policy was praised in popular culture\, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper a nd Walt Whitman\, and in the highest offices of government and the militar y. As the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jacks on\, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Je sup\, who\, in 1836\, wrote of the Seminoles: "The country can be rid of t hem only by exterminating them." Spanning more than four hundred years\, t his classic bottom-up peoples' history radically reframes US history and e xplodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative."--Publisher 's description.
\nRegistration is encouraged but walk-ins are welcom e!
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