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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Ever wonder why American history classes make it sound like the U.S. was just a big, happy accident of freedom and progress? Spoiler: it wasn’t. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz flips the script hard, showing that the foundation of the United States is soaked in settler colonialism and Indigenous displacement. It’s uncomfortable, necessary, and worth the read if you want to stop swallowing the usual patriotic fairy tales.
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