Indigenous People's History Book Report

This book is about 400 year’s history of the relations between European and American indigenous people. Since the book is only 236 pages long, the reading experience is not pleasant but relaxed. After finishing reading, I think I will recommend this book to other people, because it is a really organized book for people who is not familiar with the history of the European and American indigenous people. The primary function of this book is to bring the demonic history to the public and criticism of the guilt that people made back in time. An Indigenous People’s History is well written based on the documentary research, it is straightforward about the history of the Genocide against indigenous people, it is tragic and the cultural misunderstandings …show more content…
It completely justified Indigenous people as inferior or even wicked. This dispossessed their rights, includes any land on which they lived. God had bestowed the convenience and superior culture to the people he chose, therefore they were predestined to own the land. The book tries to convince people that those were not extreme views, but they are the Founding Fathers and the most powerful characters during the colonial expansion and post-colonial political and military …show more content…
As long as the frontier closed in the late 19th century, the gallant and strong identity still needed to find expression, and the way it used is to bring light to dark peoples through the imperialist enterprises, but also bring benefit to control the trade routes and raw materials which are necessary to the internal economic growth. The outside prevention was also happening at the same time with the wars that against Native peoples during the 18th and 19th centuries. Dunbar-Ortiz demonstrates the constant US interventionist policy in the view of the founding of the