An indigenous peoples' history of the United States for young people
"Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identi...
| Main Authors: | Mendoza, Jean (Author), Reese, Debbie, 1959- (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939- |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Beacon Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: This land
- Follow the corn
- Culture of conquest
- Cult of the covenant
- Bloody footprints
- The birth of a nation
- Jefferson, Jackson, and the pursuit of indigenous homelands
- Sea to shining sea
- Indigenous lands become "Indian country"
- The persistence of sovereignty
- Indigenous action, indigenous rights
- "Water is life": indigenous resistance in the twenty-first century.