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© 2014 by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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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