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

29 reviews

boopointeshoes's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Child death, Colonisation, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Torture, War, Hate crime, Sexual violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Rape, Addiction, and Alcoholism

wifeslife's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Murder, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, War, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Death, Emotional abuse, and Slavery

cptcomfort's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Racism, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Deportation, War, Torture, Gun violence, Violence, Slavery, Classism, Rape, Kidnapping, Hate crime, and Colonisation

nytephoenyx's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

This is a very informative history of America from the perspective of the tribes who lived here first. There’s a heavy focus on genocide and violence and a need for return and reform and reparations. Emotional read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cultural appropriation, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Slavery, Child death, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Violence, and War

clarabooksit's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Violence, Murder, Racism, War, Genocide, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Slavery and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Rape, and Pedophilia

hunkydory's review

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, War, Death, Murder, Violence, Racism, and Slavery

beebeewin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

This is a book that every U.S. citizen should have to read. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz unflinching tells the entire history of the settler-colonization of North America. It is painful and heartbreaking to read each page as it unfolds, but was eye-opening and informative because of that willingness to talk about everything. It exposed how little we are taught in schools and how so much of the history taught is plastering over the atrocities to celebrate our "great" nation. I will definitely carry a lot of knowledge forward with me from this and it reminds me of the importance of putting my money and time into dismantling the colonialism still riff within our country, especially when it comes to our military. We should all be supporting Land Back, honoring of treaties, and repatriation of sacred lands, indigenous bodies and artifacts, because this country has been built off of the land and backs of indigenous peoples and it is time to right that wrong. Please read this book even if it is hard because we need to learn our history so we can make it right. I recommend this book to everyone. 

Also shout out to the Unitarian Universalist Association, my religion, for coming out and repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery (pg.200). May we all strive to remove that narrative from our head and see the history of the US for what it is, a history of violence,  genocide, racism, and a false belief in our own godliness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Genocide, Colonisation, and Murder

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