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

2 reviews

books_tea_blanket's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

Absolutely mandatory reading for  everyone, especially those who live in the US. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Grief, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Mass/school shootings

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.