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

29 reviews

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

pecsenye's review

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

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

vonny3492's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Genocide, Colonisation, War, Slavery, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Rape, Racism, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Hate crime, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Cultural appropriation, Alcoholism, and Addiction

eeenou's review

informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, and Racism

keeganrb's review

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, and Child death

junefish's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia

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

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.