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

2 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

junefish's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Torture

This book covers the history of indigenous peoples and the systematic genocide perpetrated against them. It covers a lot of triggering content, but it does not glorify or linger on it.