sonofachipwich 's review for:

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

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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.