An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

The history of the United States told from the perspective of the Indigenous peoples who were systematically dispossessed to create it. Dunbar-Ortiz doesn't frame this as a series of tragic misunderstandings or the inevitable march of progress. She frames it as a deliberate, ongoing project of colonialism — one that has never fully ended and whose consequences are still being negotiated. The most important corrective to the standard American historical narrative written in the last twenty years.