Books like An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

An engaging, youth-friendly overview of Indigenous peoples' history in the United States, detailing their cultures, contributions, and challenges within the context of American politics and race relations.

A landmark history: the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century. Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors, then forced to descend into the "mouth of hell" of eighteenth-century silver mines or, later, made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos. Reséndez builds the case that it was mass slavery--more than epidemics--that decimated Indian populations across North America. New evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, Indian captives, and Anglo colonists, sheds light too on Indian enslavement of other Indians--as what started as a European business passed into the hands of indigenous operators and spread like wildfire across vast tracts of the American Southwest. The Other Slavery reveals nothing less than a key missing piece of American history. For over two centuries we have fought over, abolished, and tried to come to grips with African-American slavery. It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate, equally devastating enslavement we have long failed to see truly.--Adapted from dust jacket.

The book analyzes how Old World diseases, climate, and Canadian political policies contributed to the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Aboriginal peoples during the era of Sir John A. Macdonald’s expansion.

59 chapters exploring Puebloan peoples and the prehistory of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

New England Frontier examines the first two decades of Puritan settlers’ generally peaceful and equitable relations with Native Americans, their intent to assimilate tribes, and the abrupt shift after the 1675 war.

ix, 430 pages : 23 cm