Join writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and professor Lisa King to "Zoom in" to discuss the revolutionary title AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. On Wednesday April 29TH @ 6pm on Zoom, join Union Ave Books and University of Tennessee Humanities Center for a new Public Books Masterclass series.
About the Book
2015 Recipient of the American Book Award
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples
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. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.
Step 1 - Purchase a Book: We encourage you to purchase a book to attend, but it is not required. Union Ave Books is offering curbside and home delivery of books. You can order online at www.unionavebooks.com (book link at the bottom of THIS page), or call the store at 865-951-2180.
Step 2 - RSVP: RSVP for the online masterclass discussion at RSVP@unionavebooks.com and you will be sent a link to the Zoom discussion. Please note, attendance is limited to the first 250 people who log in to the Zoom link. The hosts cannot provide technical assistance for the online event and will not provide book refunds if the broadcast experiences technical difficulties.
About the Presenters
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. After receiving her PhD in history at the University of California at Los Angeles, she taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies. Her 1977 book The Great Sioux Nation was the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, held at the United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva. Dunbar-Ortiz is the author or editor of seven other books, including Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico. She lives in San Francisco.
Lisa King is associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interests include cultural rhetorics with an emphasis in contemporary Native American and Indigenous rhetorics, visual rhetorics, and material rhetorics. She works with cross-cultural sites such as Indigenous museums and cultural centers and advocates the teaching of Indigenous texts in rhetoric and composition classrooms.
This event is part of the UT Humanities Center’s Public Books Masterclass series. For more information about the series, visit their website. https://uthumanitiesctr.utk.edu/public/reading.php
