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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

15 reviews

pecsenye's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This book is very important. You need to know what's in this book, but reading it is going to be painful and will make you reexamine a lot of the framing of history and government and the USA that you've been taught. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Torture and Murder

mrsdarcylynn's review against another edition

challenging informative sad medium-paced

5.0

If you grew up in the US or any other imperial power, this text is so important. There was so much within the book that I was fully unaware of. The author challenges myths and assumptions about the formation on the United States. My only complaint is that the book often makes large time jumps between 1776 and 1880ish, sometimes at lightning speed. This often threw me off- I wish many of the chapters had stuck to one topic or time period. Even with this (minor) criticism, I felt like the book made powerful arguments, was highly educational, and spoke the truth of as many indigenous peoples as possible. I am grateful to this author for writing this book, it is much needed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this. I listened to this as a library audiobook, but I will be purchasing a physical copy at some point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Antisemitism and Abortion

White supremacy, capital punishment, Eugenics

natalierobinld's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

My mind was really blown by the amount of history that had been obscured, avoided or blatently lied about in my American education

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

junefish's review

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, and Murder

This book covers the history of indigenous peoples and the systematic genocide perpetrated against them. It covers a lot of triggering content, but it does not glorify or linger on it.