An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
(Sprache: Englisch)
2015 Recipient of the American Book Award
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...
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...
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2015 Recipient of the American Book AwardThe 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 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 reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
In An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and 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, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, 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, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: "The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them."
Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples' history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.
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IntroductionThis land
We are here to educate, not forgive.
We are here to enlighten, not accuse.
Willie Johns, Brighton Seminole Reservation, Florida
Under the crust of that portion of Earth called the United States of America from California . . . to the Gulf Stream waters are interred the bones, villages, fields, and sacred objects of American Indians. They cry out for their stories to be heard through their descendants who carry the memories of how the country was founded and how it came to be as it is today.
It should not have happened that the great civilizations of the Western Hemisphere, the very evidence of the Western Hemisphere, were wantonly destroyed, the gradual progress of humanity interrupted and set upon a path of greed and destruction. Choices were made that forged that path toward destruction of life itself the moment in which we now live and die as our planet shrivels, overheated. To learn and know this history is both a necessity and a responsibility to the ancestors and descendants of all parties.
What historian David Chang has written about the land that became Oklahoma applies to the whole United States: Nation, race, and class converged in land. Everything in US history is about the land who oversaw and cultivated it, fished its waters, maintained its wildlife; who invaded and stole it; how it became a commodity ( real estate ) broken into pieces to be bought and sold on the market.
US policies and actions related to Indigenous peoples, though often termed racist or discriminatory, are rarely depicted as what they are: classic cases of imperialism and a particular form of colonialism settler colonialism. As anthropologist Patrick Wolfe writes, The question of genocide is never far from discussions of settler colonialism. Land is life or, at least, land is necessary for life.
The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism the founding of a
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state based on the ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of African slavery, and a policy of genocide and land theft. Those who seek history with an upbeat ending, a history of redemption and reconciliation, may look around and observe that such a conclusion is not visible, not even in utopian dreams of a better society.
Writing US history from an Indigenous peoples perspective requires rethinking the consensual national narrative. That narrative is wrong or deficient, not in its facts, dates, or details but rather in its essence. Inherent in the myth we ve been taught is an embrace of settler colonialism and genocide. The myth persists, not for a lack of free speech or poverty of information but rather for an absence of motivation to ask questions that challenge the core of the scripted narrative of the origin story. How might acknowledging the reality of US history work to transform society? That is the central question this book pursues.
Teaching Native American studies, I always begin with a simple exercise. I ask students to quickly draw a rough outline of the United States at the time it gained independence from Britain. Invariably most draw the approximate present shape of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific the continental territory not fully appropriated until a century after independence. What became independent in 1783 were the thirteen British colonies hugging the Atlantic shore. When called on this, students are embarrassed because they know better. I assure them that they are not alone. I call this a Rorschach test of unconscious manifest destiny, embedded in the minds of nearly everyone in the United States and around the world. This test reflects the seeming inevit
Writing US history from an Indigenous peoples perspective requires rethinking the consensual national narrative. That narrative is wrong or deficient, not in its facts, dates, or details but rather in its essence. Inherent in the myth we ve been taught is an embrace of settler colonialism and genocide. The myth persists, not for a lack of free speech or poverty of information but rather for an absence of motivation to ask questions that challenge the core of the scripted narrative of the origin story. How might acknowledging the reality of US history work to transform society? That is the central question this book pursues.
Teaching Native American studies, I always begin with a simple exercise. I ask students to quickly draw a rough outline of the United States at the time it gained independence from Britain. Invariably most draw the approximate present shape of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific the continental territory not fully appropriated until a century after independence. What became independent in 1783 were the thirteen British colonies hugging the Atlantic shore. When called on this, students are embarrassed because they know better. I assure them that they are not alone. I call this a Rorschach test of unconscious manifest destiny, embedded in the minds of nearly everyone in the United States and around the world. This test reflects the seeming inevit
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States “
Author's NoteIntroduction: This Land
One: Follow the Corn
Two: Culture of Conquest
Three: Cult of the Covenant
Four: Bloody Footprints
Five: Birth of a Nation
Six: The Last of the Mohicans and Andrew Jackson’s White Republic
Seven: Sea to Shining Sea
Eight: “Indian Country”
Nine: US Triumphalism and Peacetime Colonialism
Ten: Ghost Dance Prophesy: A Nation is Coming
Eleven: The Doctrine of Discovery
Conclusion: The Future of the United States
Acknowledgments
Suggested Reading
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, and is the author or editor of many books, including Not “A Nation of Immigrants.”Winner of the American Book Award (2015). She lives in San Francisco. Connect with her at reddirtsite.com or on Twitter @rdunbaro.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- 2015, 312 Seiten, Maße: 15,1 x 22,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Beacon Press
- ISBN-10: 0807057835
- ISBN-13: 9780807057834
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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This is an important book important for truth, important for justice, important for opening new dialogues, and important for addressing the continuing colonial domination of indigenous nations within the borders of the United States."The Cherokee One Feather
Meticulously documented, this thought-provoking treatise is sure to generate discussion.
Booklist
What is fresh about the book is its comprehensiveness. Dunbar-Ortiz brings together every indictment of white Americans that has been cast upon them over time, and she does so by raising intelligent new questions about many of the current trends of academia, such as multiculturalism. Dunbar-Ortiz s material succeeds, but will be eye-opening to those who have not previously encountered such a perspective.
Publishers Weekly
From the struggles against the early British settlers in New England and Virginia to the final catastrophes at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, Dunbar-Ortiz never flinches from the truth.
CounterPunch
[An] impassioned history.... Belongs on the shelf next to Dee Brown s classic, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
San Francisco Chronicle
"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz s An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States helped me clarify my place in this country. It confirmed what had been told to me by my ancestors: that Indigenous peoples, from the North Pole to the South, have been here since before the world was known as round. As a conquering nation, the United States has rewritten history to make people of the U.S. forget our past as natives to this land. This is especially apparent in the Mexi-phobic, immigrant-phobic policies of our time.
"An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States (2014) helped me clarify my place in this country...This book is necessary reading if we are to move into a more humane future."
Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
A must-read for anyone interested in the truth behind this nation s founding.
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Veronica E. Velarde Tiller, PhD, Jicarilla Apache author, historian, and publisher of Tiller s Guide to Indian Country
This may well be the most important US history book you will read in your lifetime. . . . Dunbar-Ortiz radically reframes US history, destroying all foundation 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
Dunbar Ortiz s . . . assessment and conclusions are necessary tools for all Indigenous peoples seeking to address and remedy the legacy of US colonial domination that continues to subvert Indigenous human rights in today s globalized world.
Mililani B. Trask, Native Hawai ian international law expert on Indigenous peoples rights and former Kia Aina (prime minister) of Ka La Hui Hawai i
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
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 Public Enemy
Justice-seekers everywhere will celebrate Dunbar-Ortiz s unflinching commitment to truth a truth that places settler-colonialism and genocide exactly where they belong: as foundational to the existence of the United States.
Waziyatawin, PhD, activist and author of For Indigenous Minds Only
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awarenesses, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence. Bill Ayers
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz s Indigenous Peoples History of the United States is a fiercely honest, unwavering, and unprecedented statement, one which has never been attempted by any other historian or intellectual. The presentation of facts and arguments is clear and direct, unadorned by needless and pointless rhetoric, and there is an organic feel of intellectual solidity that provides weight and trust. It is truly an Indigenous peoples voice that gives Dunbar-Ortiz s book direction, purpose, and trustworthy intention. Without doubt, this crucially important book is required reading for everyone in the Americas!
Simon J. Ortiz, Regents Professor of English and American Indian Studies, Arizona State University
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes a masterful story that relates what the Indigenous peoples of the United States have always maintained: Against the settler U.S. nation, Indigenous peoples have persevered against actions and policies intended to exterminate them, whether physically, mentally, or intellectually. Indigenous nations and their people continue to bear witness to their experiences under the U.S. and demand justice as well as the realization of sovereignty on their own terms.
Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and author of Reclaiming Diné History
This may well be the most important US history book you will read in your lifetime. . . . Dunbar-Ortiz radically reframes US history, destroying all foundation 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
Dunbar Ortiz s . . . assessment and conclusions are necessary tools for all Indigenous peoples seeking to address and remedy the legacy of US colonial domination that continues to subvert Indigenous human rights in today s globalized world.
Mililani B. Trask, Native Hawai ian international law expert on Indigenous peoples rights and former Kia Aina (prime minister) of Ka La Hui Hawai i
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
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 Public Enemy
Justice-seekers everywhere will celebrate Dunbar-Ortiz s unflinching commitment to truth a truth that places settler-colonialism and genocide exactly where they belong: as foundational to the existence of the United States.
Waziyatawin, PhD, activist and author of For Indigenous Minds Only
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awarenesses, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence. Bill Ayers
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz s Indigenous Peoples History of the United States is a fiercely honest, unwavering, and unprecedented statement, one which has never been attempted by any other historian or intellectual. The presentation of facts and arguments is clear and direct, unadorned by needless and pointless rhetoric, and there is an organic feel of intellectual solidity that provides weight and trust. It is truly an Indigenous peoples voice that gives Dunbar-Ortiz s book direction, purpose, and trustworthy intention. Without doubt, this crucially important book is required reading for everyone in the Americas!
Simon J. Ortiz, Regents Professor of English and American Indian Studies, Arizona State University
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes a masterful story that relates what the Indigenous peoples of the United States have always maintained: Against the settler U.S. nation, Indigenous peoples have persevered against actions and policies intended to exterminate them, whether physically, mentally, or intellectually. Indigenous nations and their people continue to bear witness to their experiences under the U.S. and demand justice as well as the realization of sovereignty on their own terms.
Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and author of Reclaiming Diné History
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