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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
12 reviews
junefish's review
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
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.opinionsofawolf's review against another edition
challenging
slow-paced
4.0
Well-organized, thought-provoking, and actually offers some solutions for readers who feel the urge to do something after reading this book to engage with.
Overall, even though I had previously taken a course in Native American History (that's what it was called back then, now it would be called Indigenous History), and I had pursued reading about the AIM of the 1970s on my own, I still found information I had not previously known, especially about colonization efforts by the US in the late 20th and early 21st centuries (and still ongoing).
I do think the Epilogue actually belonged at the beginning- I wanted context for who this author was and her relationships with some of the people mentioned in the book. I also think a clear statement about what position she is speaking from would lend greater clarity to the book.
The chapters in the book are not overly long (it took me about 30 minutes to read a chapter) and they deliver a heck of a lot of information in a short amount of time. An eye-opening book.
Overall, even though I had previously taken a course in Native American History (that's what it was called back then, now it would be called Indigenous History), and I had pursued reading about the AIM of the 1970s on my own, I still found information I had not previously known, especially about colonization efforts by the US in the late 20th and early 21st centuries (and still ongoing).
I do think the Epilogue actually belonged at the beginning- I wanted context for who this author was and her relationships with some of the people mentioned in the book. I also think a clear statement about what position she is speaking from would lend greater clarity to the book.
The chapters in the book are not overly long (it took me about 30 minutes to read a chapter) and they deliver a heck of a lot of information in a short amount of time. An eye-opening book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, and Religious bigotry