Reading with Rev Gordon
Host: Rev Gordon
When: 7:00pm Beginning December 7th and continuing on the 1st and 3rd Thursday
Where: ZOOM
Join Rev Gordon in reading An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz which is now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck. * 2015 Recipient of the American Book Award
We will be reading approximately two chapters at a time for 6 sessions. Please Click Here for the syllabus.
More About the Author:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a New York Times best-selling author, grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, and is the author or editor of many books, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award. She lives in San Francisco. Connect with her at reddirtsite.com or on Twitter @rdunbaro.
More About the Book:
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. Read More …