2015 American Book Award winner, this is the first history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples. Today, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations in the United States, encompassing nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Indigenous inhabitants who once lived in this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regime has largely been omitted from history. Now, the celebrated historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers, for the first time, a history of the United States from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, showing how American Indians have actively resisted the expansion of the US Empire for centuries. In "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States," Dunbar-Ortiz skillfully challenges the founding myth of the United States and illustrates how policies have impacted Indigenous peoples.