Boston, Massachusetts
Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
© 2014 by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
18 17 16 15 14 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Beacon Press’s ReVisioning American History series consists of accessibly written books by notable scholars that reconstruct and reinterpret US history from diverse perspectives.
Text design and composition by Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services
Excerpts from Simon J. Ortiz’s from Sand Creek: Rising in This Heart Which Is Our America (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000) are reprinted here with permission.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne.
An indigenous peoples’ history of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
pages cm — (ReVisioning American history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8070-0040-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8070-0041-0 (ebook)
1. Indians of North America—Historiography. 2. Indians of North America—Colonization. 3. Indians, Treatment of— United States—History. 4. United States—Colonization. 5. United States— Race relations. 6. United States—Politics and government. I. Title.
E76.8.D86 2014
970.004’97—dc23 2013050262