Now 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. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Contents This land - Follow the corn - Culture of conquest - Cult of the covenant - Bloody footprints - The birth of a nation - The last of the Mohicans and Andrew Jackson's White Republic - Sea to shining sea - "Indian Country" - US triumphalism and peacetime colonialism - Ghost dance prophecy : a nation is coming - The doctrine of discovery - The future of the United States Summary 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. Object Details author Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne 1939- NMAI copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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