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Meticulously documented, this thought-provoking treatise is sure to generate discussion.-- Booklist An Indigenous Peoples' History...pulls up the paving stones and lays bare the deep history of the United States, from the corn to the reservations. If the United States is a 'crime scene', as she calls it, then Dunbar-Ortiz is its forensic scientist. A sobering look at a grave history. -- Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States provides an essential historical reference for all Americans. . . .The American Indians' perspective has been absent from colonial histories for too long, leaving continued misunderstandings of our struggles for sovereignty and human rights. -- Peterson Zah, former president of the Navajo Nation [An] impassioned history...Belongs on the shelf next to Dee Brown's classic, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. -- San Francisco Chronicle Dunbar-Ortiz's material succeeds, but will be eye-opening to those who have not previously encountered such a perspective. -- Publishers Weekly Meticulously documented, this thought-provoking treatise is sure to generate discussion. -- Booklist Ortiz doesn't ignore the darker sides of Indian life and history, including Indian ownership of black slaves before the Civil War, but for the most part she points an accusatory finger at the settlers, soldiers, and US presidents who waged what she describes as genocidal warfare against foes labeled 'savages' and 'barbarians.' -- San Francisco Chronicle This may well be the most important US history book you will read in your lifetime...Dunbar-Ortiz radically reframes US history, destroying all foundational myths to reveal a brutal settler-colonial structure and ideology designed to cover its bloody tracks. Here, rendered in honest, often poetic words, is the story of those tracks and the people who survived--bloodied but unbowed. Spoiler alert: the colonial era is still here, and so are the Indians. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams

Meticulously documented, this thought-provoking treatise is sure to generate discussion.-- ""Booklist"" ""An Indigenous Peoples' History...pulls up the paving stones and lays bare the deep history of the United States, from the corn to the reservations. If the United States is a 'crime scene', as she calls it, then Dunbar-Ortiz is its forensic scientist. A sobering look at a grave history."" -- ""Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations"" ""An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States provides an essential historical reference for all Americans. . . .The American Indians' perspective has been absent from colonial histories for too long, leaving continued misunderstandings of our struggles for sovereignty and human rights."" -- ""Peterson Zah, former president of the Navajo Nation"" ""[An] impassioned history...Belongs on the shelf next to Dee Brown's classic, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."" -- ""San Francisco Chronicle"" ""Dunbar-Ortiz's material succeeds, but will be eye-opening to those who have not previously encountered such a perspective."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Meticulously documented, this thought-provoking treatise is sure to generate discussion."" -- ""Booklist"" ""Ortiz doesn't ignore the darker sides of Indian life and history, including Indian ownership of black slaves before the Civil War, but for the most part she points an accusatory finger at the settlers, soldiers, and US presidents who waged what she describes as genocidal warfare against foes labeled 'savages' and 'barbarians.' -- ""San Francisco Chronicle"" ""This may well be the most important US history book you will read in your lifetime...Dunbar-Ortiz radically reframes US history, destroying all foundational myths to reveal a brutal settler-colonial structure and ideology designed to cover its bloody tracks. Here, rendered in honest, often poetic words, is the story of those tracks and the people who survived--bloodied but unbowed. Spoiler alert: the colonial era is still here, and so are the Indians."" -- ""Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams""

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an American historian, writer, and feminist. She is the author of numerous books and is a professor emerita of ethnic studies at California State University-Hayward. Laural Merlington is an audiobook narrator with over two hundred titles to her credit and a winner of multiple Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks. She has performed and directed for thirty years in theaters throughout the country. In addition to her extensive theater and voice-over work, she teaches college in her home state of Michigan.

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