Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

23 reviews

badaimsyndrom's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Child abuse, Genocide, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Violence, Death, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Confinement, Murder, and Kidnapping

sarah_speaks's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.5

This is a very important and eye-opening book. The author absolutely decimates the founding myths of America and sheds much needed light on a history of settler colonialism and genocide that the United States has worked hard to bury.

I was not the biggest fan of the writing style, and I think this book would have benefited from editing to make sure it maintained a tighter focus on its subject matter. At times the book seemed to skip around between geographic areas or time periods, without making clear who, where and when the narrative was describing.

Five stars for thesis. Four stars for writing style and readability.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racial slurs, War, Death, Colonisation, Murder, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Rape

nrhilmer's review

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Hate crime, Colonisation, Child death, Genocide, and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Torture, Animal death, Addiction, Rape, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism

meredith_williams_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Racism, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual violence and Alcoholism

larbster90's review

challenging informative sad slow-paced

4.25

Fairly academic. The author's argument is well-made, and I learned so many things that should have been covered in U.S. history courses. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, War, Confinement, Hate crime, Genocide, Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Slavery, Animal death, Torture, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Rape, and Violence

uncannydanny's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual assault, War, Xenophobia, Child abuse, Child death, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Colonisation, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, Alcohol, and Violence

nerdy_reader_9571's review

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Trafficking, War, and Child death

artsydarcy0's review

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Murder, Violence, Racism, and Racial slurs

mrsdarcylynn's review

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

jourdanicus's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

This should really be assigned reading for all US American residents... Not much more to say than that. I appreciate Dunbar-Ortiz's straightforward tone about the real aims and outcomes of the colonization of north American territories, as well as the hard work, research, and courage it must take to write against the narrative of colonialist history. This book gives me hope for true change and movement toward dismantling the colonial and imperial state currently in place in the US.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Racism

Moderate: War, Death, Child abuse, and Child death