Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

“Adapting a work of history as dense and as vital as Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014) to comics form is no easy feat, but Peart-Smith is up for the task … A thoughtful, radically hopeful work that is sure to resonate with readers of all ages.”
—Booklist

“[Peart-Smith] consolidates a LOT of information into one coherent narrative, and what I especially like is how celebratory it is in the end. This is not a happy story, but it is a defiant one, and it even ends with a clearly stated process for what’s next … This is a book that is very worth reading for anyone who wants to challenge what they think about American history.”
—Comic Book Resources

“This isn’t simply a story of oppression. It’s equally a history of resistance … [it] should be on every library’s shelves. Now more than ever.”
—Broken Frontier

Paul Peart-Smith is a celebrated cartoonist of over 35 years, with experience in concept art, graphic design, and animation. Having studied to be an Illustrator in Cambridge, England, he has worked on comics for 2000 AD, including Slaughter Bowl from its digital-only collections. He is the illustrator and adapter of W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk- A Graphic Interpretation. He lives in Tasmania, Australia.

Paul Buhle, retired Senior Lecturer at Brown University, is the authorized biographer of Pan African giant C.L.R. James. He has edited over a dozen nonfiction graphic novels, including Studs Terkel’s Working and A Peoples’ History of the American Empire (a graphic adaptation of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States). He worked with David Lester and Marcus Rediker to produce Prophet against Slavery- Benjamin Lay, a Graphic Novel (Beacon 2021). Buhle lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four 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 a recipient of the American Book Award (2015) for An Indigenous History of the United States. The author or editor of numerous books, including Not “A Nation of Immigrants,” she lives in San Francisco.

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