“An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, feminist, revolutionary, historian
November 19, Noon-1:20pm, Fairhaven College Auditorium
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. I will discuss this history, based on my new book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, in which I challenge the founding myth of the United States and radically reframe US history, tracing US aggressive militarism and imperialist foreign wars to the earlier wars of conquest and land-theft against Indigenous nations.
World Issues Forums/Paths to Global Justice
Fall Quarter 2014
http://www.wwu.edu/Fairhaven/news/worldissuesforum/14fall.shtml
Coordinator: Shirley Osterhaus Shirley.osterhaus@wwu.edu
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO HEAR Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Nov. 19, 3-4 pm Northwest Indian College
- Nov 20, 7:00 pm Village Books
