Event Title
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Description
Today 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. I will discuss this history, based on my new book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, in which I challenge the founding myth of the United States and radically reframe US history, tracing US aggressive militarism and imperialist foreign wars to the earlier wars of conquest and land-theft against Indigenous nations.
About the Lecturer: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, feminist, revolutionary, historian
Document Type
Event
Start Date
19-11-2014 12:00 PM
End Date
19-11-2013 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Indians, Treatment of--United States--History; Indians of North America--Historiography; Indians of North America--Colonization
Geographic Coverage
United States--Race relations
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Indigenous peoples
Rights
This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws.
Language
English
Format
video/mp4
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Today 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. I will discuss this history, based on my new book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, in which I challenge the founding myth of the United States and radically reframe US history, tracing US aggressive militarism and imperialist foreign wars to the earlier wars of conquest and land-theft against Indigenous nations.
About the Lecturer: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, feminist, revolutionary, historian
