Here is a history of the US from the viewpoint of Indigenous peoples showing how Native Americans resisted the expansion of the US empire. American history will never be the same.
"The settlers gave a name to the mutilated and bloody corpses they left in the wake of scalp-hunts: redskins." P. 65
"Our nation was born in genocide. . . We are perhaps the only nation which tried as matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode." Martin Luther King, quoted on page 78.
The author calls Andrew Jackson a genocidal sociopath. P. 94
Jefferson did not consult any Indigenous nations when he consummated the Louisiana Purchase which doubled the size of the United States. P. 95
The Seminole Nation has never ceased to exist in the Florida everglades. P. 102
As I read this book I get more and more disturbed about our country's history.
The amazing Doctrine of Discovery. P. 198
The author links settler colonialism/genocide to American military action in Iraq and other places. Genocide against Indigenous people led to our country's imperialism and military state. I think she is stretching her thesis.
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