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

16 reviews

books_tea_blanket's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

Absolutely mandatory reading for  everyone, especially those who live in the US. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Slavery, Child death, Death, Genocide, War, Violence, Gun violence, Grief, and Racism

Moderate: Torture, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Murder, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Slavery, Sexual violence, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, and Racism

Minor: Mass/school shootings

savagegrease's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Genocide, Slavery, Racism, Colonisation, and Violence

cococorycollins's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child death, Violence, Xenophobia, War, Genocide, Racism, Colonisation, and Body horror

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Cultural appropriation, Rape, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Slavery

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

The book is so well researched and informative, I would give it 5 ⭐. That being said, it's like reading a textbook . It's very dry. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator is monotone so that didn't enhance it in any way. Highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Child abuse, Violence, Grief, Gun violence, Death, Hate crime, Blood, Racism, Physical abuse, War, Colonisation, Torture, Genocide, Murder, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Sexual violence, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcohol

boopointeshoes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Child death, Colonisation, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Torture, War, Hate crime, Sexual violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Rape, Addiction, and Alcoholism

wifeslife's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Murder, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, War, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Death, Emotional abuse, and Slavery

cptcomfort's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Racism, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Deportation, War, Torture, Gun violence, Violence, Slavery, Classism, Rape, Kidnapping, Hate crime, and Colonisation

beebeewin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

This is a book that every U.S. citizen should have to read. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz unflinching tells the entire history of the settler-colonization of North America. It is painful and heartbreaking to read each page as it unfolds, but was eye-opening and informative because of that willingness to talk about everything. It exposed how little we are taught in schools and how so much of the history taught is plastering over the atrocities to celebrate our "great" nation. I will definitely carry a lot of knowledge forward with me from this and it reminds me of the importance of putting my money and time into dismantling the colonialism still riff within our country, especially when it comes to our military. We should all be supporting Land Back, honoring of treaties, and repatriation of sacred lands, indigenous bodies and artifacts, because this country has been built off of the land and backs of indigenous peoples and it is time to right that wrong. Please read this book even if it is hard because we need to learn our history so we can make it right. I recommend this book to everyone. 

Also shout out to the Unitarian Universalist Association, my religion, for coming out and repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery (pg.200). May we all strive to remove that narrative from our head and see the history of the US for what it is, a history of violence,  genocide, racism, and a false belief in our own godliness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Genocide, Colonisation, and Murder

nrhilmer's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Hate crime, Colonisation, Child death, Genocide, and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Torture, Animal death, Addiction, Rape, Sexual assault, and Alcoholism

larbster90's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

4.25

Fairly academic. The author's argument is well-made, and I learned so many things that should have been covered in U.S. history courses. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, War, Confinement, Hate crime, Genocide, Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Slavery, Animal death, Torture, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Rape, and Violence