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This Virtual event has been moved to January 29th, 2025:

An Indigenous People’s History of the United States

by Roxanne Dunar-Ortiz

Book summary (from publisher's website):

A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes.

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. With this bottom-up people's history, Dunbar Ortiz history explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.

Writing from the perspective of the peoples displaced by Europeans and their white descendants, Dunar-Ortiz centers Indigenous voices over the course of four centuries, tracing their perseverance against policies intended to obliterate them. Unflinchingly honest about the brutality of this nation’s founding and its legacy of settler-colonialism and genocide, the impact of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s 2014 book has been profound. In the new, 10th anniversary edition, this classic is revisited with new material that takes an incisive look at the post-Obama era from the war in Afghanistan to Charlottesville’s white supremacy-fueled rallies, and from the onset of the pandemic to the election of President Biden. 

Please note that this event is online only.

About the Brave Space Book Club (BSBC):

The Brave Space Book Club is co-hosted by Titi Ngwenya and Deborah Hunter-Jones as an intimate forum to discuss fiction and nonfiction books collectively chosen by the brave book readers—a space to have open and frank conversations about books that broaden our knowledge of Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI). We are in a moment when many people wish to read more, learn more, and understand more about each other. If you are open to reading this subject matter and exploring how to talk to each other about it in an inclusive environment—please join us!

The BSBC meets once a month via Zoom, usually on Wednesdays, 8-9:30 p.m.

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Free and open to all.