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Author Reese, Debbie, 1959- author.

Title An indigenous peoples' history of the United States for young people / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ; adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]
©2019
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2045152~S1
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Description ix, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
age Children lcdgt
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: This land -- Follow the corn -- Culture of conquest -- Cult of the covenant -- Bloody footprints -- The birth of a nation -- Jefferson, Jackson and pursuit of indigenous homelands -- Sea to shining sea -- Indigenous lands become "Indian country" -- The persistence of sovereignty -- Indigenous action, indigenous rights -- Conclusion: "Water is life" : indigenous resistance in the twenty-first century.
Summary "Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own place in history"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Indians of North America -- Historiography.
Indians of North America -- Colonization.
Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History.
United States -- Colonization.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Politics and government.
Added Author Mendoza, Jean, author.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- Indigenous peoples' history of the United States. Adaptation of (work)
ISBN 9780807049396 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807049395 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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