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4.4 AVERAGE
4.4 AVERAGE
"The objective of US authorities was to terminate their (Native Americans) existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide."
A hard, but extremely necessary read. Highly recommend expanding your consciousness of the American way.
A hard, but extremely necessary read. Highly recommend expanding your consciousness of the American way.
informative
slow-paced
An educational look at US history from the non-"winner" point of view. There were several stretch these about American culture or motivations, but overall a useful and informative book.
challenging
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emotional
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A must-read for Americans
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is apparently the 3rd installment of this series which starts with A Queer History of the United States so it looks like this series is a fantastic telling of the Darkness this country was founded on instead of the America Creation Myth.
Roxanne (who is half-indigenous) regales the reader with what remaining knowledge of this country's Indigenous peoples' history. My favorite fact was that there was a cultivated woodland trail from the Midwest to New York where buffalo were herded through to give buffalo to all different people, even in territory that wasn't natural to the buffalo. That's amazing.
The buffalo were killed and left to rot as an insult by colonizers to herd native people from their own lands.
Another fact I took to heart was when colonizers were trying to take land and life away from the Indigenous peoples one of the tactics that worked (almost even better than diseases), was turning people against themselves with lies and false promises.
Maybe something good to keep in mind over the next few years.
"The United States is not unique among nations in forging an origin myth, but most of its citizens believe it to be exceptional among nation-states, and this exceptionalist ideology has been used to justify appropriation of the continent and then domination of the rest of the world."
This was an audiobook loan from the Libby app.
Roxanne (who is half-indigenous) regales the reader with what remaining knowledge of this country's Indigenous peoples' history. My favorite fact was that there was a cultivated woodland trail from the Midwest to New York where buffalo were herded through to give buffalo to all different people, even in territory that wasn't natural to the buffalo. That's amazing.
The buffalo were killed and left to rot as an insult by colonizers to herd native people from their own lands.
Another fact I took to heart was when colonizers were trying to take land and life away from the Indigenous peoples one of the tactics that worked (almost even better than diseases), was turning people against themselves with lies and false promises.
Maybe something good to keep in mind over the next few years.
"The United States is not unique among nations in forging an origin myth, but most of its citizens believe it to be exceptional among nation-states, and this exceptionalist ideology has been used to justify appropriation of the continent and then domination of the rest of the world."
This was an audiobook loan from the Libby app.
challenging
dark
The more critical American histories I read, the more I realize that it was all right there, right from the start. The entire disaster has had the same shape since the beginning, and it just iterates and renews itself as time goes on. As with many such topics, I knew a few of the broad strokes, but the details Dunbar-Ortiz provides, as well as the lines of continuity she traces between treatment of First Nations by the USA and its continuing imperial efforts, are staggering.
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced