Wednesday, August 5, 2020

genocide

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; 2014; $27.95; 296 pages; Beacon Press, Boston, MA; 978-0-80700040-3; purchased from the Multnomah County Library's Title Wave Used Bookstore; 7/2/2020-7/10/2020

In boiling down the history of the United States of America's history to just a few words they would be, genocide, lies and failure.  The settlers of the new world and the government of the United States used genocide as a start to "settle" the country.  Then the government  lied to the Indigenous People, over and over again.  The government  have failed to live up to any treaty ever signed.  When physical genocide didn't work they turned to psychological genocide and tried to turn then into white people.  Even today the government does not treat the indigenous people well.

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