2020 American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Book
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People,selected by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children's Book Council

2019 Best-Of Lists: Best YA Nonfiction of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews) · Best Nonfiction of 2019 (School Library Journal) · Best Books for Teens (New York Public Library) · Best Informational Books for Older Readers (Chicago Public Library)
Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism.
Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity.
The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own place in history.

A Note to Readers
INTRODUCTION
This Land
CHAPTER ONE
Follow the Corn
CHAPTER TWO
Culture of Conquest
CHAPTER THREE
Cult of the Covenant
CHAPTER FOUR
Bloody Footprints
CHAPTER FIVE
The Birth of a Nation
CHAPTER SIX
Jefferson, Jackson, and the Pursuit of Indigenous Homelands
CHAPTER SEVEN
Sea to Shining Sea
CHAPTER EIGHT
Indigenous Lands Become “Indian Country”
CHAPTER NINE
The Persistence of Sovereignty
CHAPTER TEN
Indigenous Action, Indigenous Rights
CONCLUSION
“Water Is Life”: Indigenous Resistance in the Twenty-First Century
For Further Reading
Some Books We Recommend
Notes
Image Credits
Index

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Debbie Reese, and Jean Mendoza