An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People | 
This Indigenous Peoples Day is a great time to donate to the Native American Rights Fund. Their website is narf.org for anyone interested. I read this book 5 years ago and highly recommend it. It is definitely not the whitewashed history they teach in the majority of schools. The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W Loewen explains some of the why they are so whitewashed.
pickBook #14 of 2023: “An Indigenous Peoples‘ History of the United States” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Really good, really important. It focuses on the actual origin story of the United States, the historical and ongoing genocide of indigenous people in the US, and how that translates into US militarism and anti-indigenous violence across the world.
“The story of the new world is a horror, the story of America is a crime.”
pickI‘ve spent the past few weeks with this book, reading and digesting one chapter at a time with Maya. We both learned a lot, and had some great discussions together. It‘s filled with important historical information that gives a fuller, more accurate picture than what is taught in most K-12 history curriculums.
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we had a revolution to fight taxation without representation, but unfortunately Puerto Rico and DC are still taxed without representation and our Indigenous brothers and sisters still have to fight for basic land rights and deal with broken treaties . Two links to celebrate our freedom by recognizing its cost to everyone.
https://blog.libro.fm/indigenous-owned-bookstores/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ6Ayddj-As/?utm_medium=copy_link
Friday night reads.
pickBook 52 of 2020! Lots of important information and ideas in this book. I wish it had been just a bit more accessible and "non-academic" but I still think it's an important book everyone should read. Reading and thinking about the consequences of the USA's colonial settler past is always important and worth it.
🥳 Happy birthday to me. 🤓 Book haul 2 of 3 has arrived.
"Under the crust of that portion of Earth called the United States of America---'from California...to the Gulf Stream waters'---are interred the bones, villages, fields, and sacred objects of American Indians."
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