An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States | 
My #joyousjanuary goals are to finish the 4 books I have started and read one more. @Andrew65
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Important information to know and understand. It‘s heavy not going to lie, the government of this country did A LOT of horrible, disgusting, despicable things to the native peoples of this land and others.
These are the things that we need to be taught, the things that we need to know and not ignore or sweep under the rug and pretend didn‘t happen.
Highly recommend. Give yourself time to process and digest.
Current audio.
It‘s heavy as one would expect.
Fuck Columbus! Happy Indigenous peoples day! ❤️
I love a rainy weekend day. Perfect excuse to stay in and read with my kittos. The weather has been WILD in Chicago today. Lots of flooding (including our basement). Thankfully the rain has lightened. #lennox #catsoflitsy
Got to wander around Big Foot Beach State Park in Lake Geneva, WI for a bit today. Now my other half is HAM radioing while I enjoy this book in the shade. Hope everyone is having a wonderful Friday!!
pickA must read. Not an easy read, but the US was founded on the premise of acquiring land through genocide and war. The process was developed and perfected long before arriving in the Americas, and continues today with a saturated US military presence throughout the world. "Freedom" is a palatable justification but it's not the truth.
2022 Read Harder Challenge
#22: Read a history about a period you know little about
I was not taught any of this in school (homeschooled by conservatives) so although I‘ve been educated since then, this book put everything in clear perspective. I do wish it had additional chapters for 21st century events but it had a handy list of suggested reads at the end to keep learning.
pickOne atrocity after another makes for a pretty brutal telling. As wrenching as it was to read, I really appreciate that @4thHouseontheLeft pushed me out of my comfort zone and opened my eyes to this history.
#NewYearWhoDis
I finally had time after the Thanksgiving prep and Christmas decorating to sit down with my amazing #NewYearWhoDis list from @4thhouseontheleft I love how wonderfully diverse your list is! I‘ve read, and loved, a few on the list already but here are the ones I hope to get to in 2022. I will probably only have time for a couple of them in January, but hope to eventually get to them all. Thank you so much @monalyisha for such a great match!
Since our quarantine period means Maya will miss a week of her Social Studies Indigenous Studies unit, I bought this book which has been on my TBR for a while and we will be reading and discussing a chapter each day!
pickThis is what I should‘ve learned K-12. She hits the most important points of the post-Columbian history of indigenous peoples and their interactions with white settlers up through the 20th c. She talks some about how people lived before and without settlers, but mainly this is adding a different perspective and adding depth to the stories you (Americans) already know. And in just a 10 hour #audiobook/300 pages print. Should be required reading.
In case you‘re interested @megnews
I know we were talking about reading this one eventually, and I don‘t know if the audio version is well done, but it‘s part of the audible 2-1 sale selections at the moment.
pick4⭐️ || I‘m glad to have been able to finally read this. Thought-provoking, important, and often overlooked perspective of the history of the US.
pickIncredible book. Should be required reading in every U.S. high school. It not only guts the origin story and subsequent myths supporting ideas of American “exceptionalism” and “manifest destiny” but offers a future vision where we can return to a land and governance aligned behind American Indigenous values: ones respecting the land, fellow humans and all generations-to-come over our absurd and arbitrary worship of money and private property.
pickWow. That‘s all I can say. In recent years, I had started to understand that the United States was founded through genocide, but this book *really* made me understand that. What we did to the Indigenous peoples of this country is absolutely horrifying and unforgivable. It honestly makes me feel sick to my stomach that I am living on land that was forcibly stolen through genocide. This history needs to be required reading for all Americans.
This is not one moment but the entire history, multiple entire histories, of a multiplicity of nations and so little of it is taught in American schools or in the Canadian schools I attended.
#IntegrateYourshelf
What a great idea, @Hestapleton !
Since I‘m no longer going to NJ to visit my sister (and likely not even going locally to my husband‘s family dinner), my goal is a book a day during the readathon! I have some anticipated romance and YA books on my shelves that should be easy enough to knock out in a day with no plans. 😄
#FeastMode
The information all Americans should receive as part of their public education, instead of the watered-down, blindly patriotic nationalism crap that I personally received as a child.
Read this!
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#3Books that I plan to read this month!
bailedThis is such an important narrative to have out in the world, refuting the lies of white-written history of the US. I‘m just finding it terribly dry, a problem I often have with history books. So I‘m going to cut my losses and maybe return to this someday in audio format to see if it works better for me.
1. Single narrator.
2. Katherine Kellgren.
3. Currently listening to the tagged book, plus American Colonies by Alan Taylor and A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki (alongside the physical books).
#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz
1. Yes! The Handmaid‘s Tale and the first Veronica Mars book.
2. The tagged book is my only 5 ⭐️ read for December.
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
pickYes, I added this to my best of the decade list before I even finished it! It‘s that important! So much of what we think we know about our history and Native American history is wrong. This was not an easy read but it‘s so essential to fully grasp how we got here and the atrocities that were committed and still are being committed.
pickThis book needs to be taught in every history class in this country. I thought I had an idea of the atrocities perpetuated against our indigenous people. It turns out my knowledge was only a tip of the iceberg. It has changed my view in so many ways. It was an uncomfortable read, but I believe important. This one will stay with me forever.
I picked up my next book club read. I have a week to read it. It looks excellent though.
so-soTo expect a thorough recounting of US history in a 10 hour book is ridiculous, but also...it all seemed very vague and disconnected. As a resource to find more topics to read on, this is a good source. If you want to radically shift your view of history...not so much. #audiobook
I‘ve been reading this one forever and it‘s so difficult to grasp the depth of the horrors committed. #indigenouspeoplesday
pickI think the publisher didn't give the author the room she needed to tell the story she needed to tell. Ultimately, this book is not a history of indigenous peoples as much as its a history of what white people did to indigenous peoples. Full review here: http://www.librarything.com/work/15144374/reviews/160050911_344686087
This is overwhelming. How do we even begin to mend the damage?
pickExcellent book about U.S. history from a perspective we rarely hear. I already knew a lot of it, but hadn‘t realized how much of it is still ongoing, especially how the effects of our wars against the Native Americans continues to play out in our global military strategy today. It‘s a fascinating, well written, well researched book.
American imperialism in a nutshell. This ideology has justified so much evil.
I'm finding that this isn't so much a history of indigenous peoples as it is a history of what Europeans did to indigenous peoples. In other words, I'm actually learning more about my own history than about the history of Native Americans. That's not necessarily a criticism: after all, there are a lot of Native peoples with complex histories, and it is important to tell the history of genocide and how it shaped the US.
Dunbar-Ortiz doesn't pull any punches, nor does she shy away from scathing (and justified!) criticism of colonization. This book is heart-rending, heart-breaking, and essential.
“Historians spouted platitudes: ‘There were good and bad people on both sides.‘”
Ugh! Why does this sound like something the guy in the WH spouted not too long ago? 🤢
pickThis book was very informative and seriously disturbing.
Please read it.
I don't really have TBR lists that are timely (except when I'm reading for a book club), but I would really like to finish my current book and these library books during December. But I might get distracted and read something entirely different. 🤷 Day 1: #ReindeerReads #tbr @Jess7
An Indigenous Peoples‘ History of the United States Discussion #6: Would you recommend this book? If so, to whom would you recommend it? Do you have recommendations to share regarding Indigenous Peoples‘ History?
An Indigenous Peoples‘ History of the United States Discussion #5: Dunbar-Ortiz ask later in the book “How then can U.S. society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility?” How do you think the U.S. should proceed in the future in regards to Native American history?
An Indigenous Peoples‘ History of the United States Discussion #4: In light of the debate around the removal of Confederate Stautes, how do you feel about the existences of statues memorializing men that took place in the mass murder of Native Americans and their place in history? (ie John Sevier)
Thanksgiving break seemed an appropriate time to read this. This should be required reading.
An Indigenous Peoples‘ History of the United States Discussion #3. A central tenet of this book is colonialism. How do you feel the effects of settler colonialism are still felt today in the U.S. and around the world?
An Indigenous Peoples‘ History of the United States Discussion #2: What information regarding Indigenous Peoples‘ history were you least familiar with? How did this book help increase your understanding of Indigenous Peoples‘ history?
pickThis book is an excellent primer to build on the entire history of the US through the lens of the colonized (both on the continent and, interestingly, abroad, as well). The US educational system does a poor job of showing genocide; this book excels.
This book is a sucker-punch full of testimony and research, and native voices prevail in the text.
Join the chat about it at @LitsyFeministBookClub today through the end of the month!
