Week 17 - Something New
Book Review
An Indigenous' Peoples History Of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Book 13 of 52 Rated: 4 stars Dates Read: January 25th thru 30, 2025 "They did not settle a virgin land. They invaded and displaced a resident population. This is so simple a fact that it seems self-evident." - Francis Jennings, historian It's been a few years since I last opened a history book for school, from what I remember of them, I feel like they don't tell the full story of how the "Europeans created the 'Doctrine of Discovery' to justify their takeover of any territory they "discovered" regardless of whose home it was. From an Indigenous perspective, European claims to Indigenous lands were not legitimate." After reading through this book and learning more information, the history that I remember learning now feels a bit sanitized and white washed in the way that it is presented. Part of what I learned in this books was the fact that the word, ...
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