Are we telling U.S. Indigenous history wrong?
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There are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations in the United States today, nearly three million people, but their stories have largely been omitted from the nation’s history.
On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Gavin Scott interviews acclaimed historian and activist, Professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and takes a look at US History through the lens of Indigenous Peoples and unpacks what we’ve been missing as a nation without their perspective.
BOOK: An Indigenous People's History of the United States
GUEST: Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
PRODUCER: Gavin Scott (Columbia University ‘25)
MUSIC: Silas Bohen and Coleman Hamilton
PRODUCTION: Pod People - Hannah Pedersen, Danielle Roth, Shaneez Tyndall, and Michael Aquino.
SHOW NOTES: Link to Professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’swork
