An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young PeopleNow adapted for young people! Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism. 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

Don’t worry

What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth

Illustrated by Angela Erdrich

and suicide

A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world

renowned poet Heid E

Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination

from one another

“A portrait of an ‘iconic’ marriage on its way to dissolution…Erdrich’s unbridled urgency yields startlingly original phrasing as well as flashes of blinding lucidity

but we have inherited it

Mni Sota Makoce tells the detailed history of the Dakota people in their traditional homelands for at least hundreds of years prior to exile

honest portrait of Plains life