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DESCRIPTION:An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (the 10th Anniversary 
 Edition)\n\nCity Lights and Beacon Press celebrate the 10th Anniversary 
 Edition of the first history of the United States told from the perspective 
 of indigenous peoples. "An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United 
 States" is a New York Times Bestseller and Recipient of the American Book 
 Award.\n\nAn Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is a 2015 
 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.\n\nMonday, 
 October 9, 2023, 6:00 pm PST\n\nRegister here: 
 https://citylights.com/events/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/\n\n\nToday in the 
 United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized 
 Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of 
 the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The 
 centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has 
 largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed 
 historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United 
 States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how 
 Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US 
 empire.\n\nWith growing support for movements such as the campaign to 
 abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the 
 Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An 
 Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource 
 providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the 
 present. \n\nDunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the 
 United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was 
 colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original 
 inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, 
 this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James 
 Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government 
 and the military. \n\nShockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its 
 zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best 
 articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the 
 Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating 
 them.”\n\nSpanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up 
 peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences 
 that have haunted our national narrative.\n\n\nROXANNE 
 DUNBAR-ORTIZ\n\nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a New York Times best-selling author, 
 grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active 
 in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is 
 known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social 
 justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural 
 Freedom Prize, and is the author or editor of many books, including NOT A 
 NATION OF IMMIGRANTS, BLOOD ON THE BORDER, and LOADED (published by City 
 Lights) amongst other titles. She lives in San Francisco. Connect with her 
 at reddirtsite.com or on Twitter @rdunbaro.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/09/21/18859062.php
SUMMARY:Book Talk: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States w/ author R. Dunbar-Ortiz
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/09/21/18859062.php
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