By Brendan O’Meara
It being a week before Americans, by and large, celebrate a major Thursday holiday, it seemed like great timing to have Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Paul Peart-Smith on the show to talk about the graphic interpretation Roxanne’s seminal text An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (Beacon Press).
Here’s a link to the source text and a link to the graphic text. Both incredible, must-read books, learning that takes place, as Roxanne writes, “outside the academy.”
Roxanne also is the author of Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War, Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975, and Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, among others.
Paul is a graphic artist of a few books including W.E.B. Du Bois: Souls of Black Folk and he’s working on one about Malcolm X. He has a newsletter called INKSKULL that riffs on mental health and art that inspires him.
This conversation was really fun and meaty and I hope you get a lot from it and want to learn more about the genocide of the Native Indians/Native Americans by settler colonists.
