Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Born 1939
Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. 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. After receiving her PhD in history at the University of California at Los Angeles, she taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies.
Her 1977 book The Great Sioux Nation was the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, held at the United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva. Dunbar-Ortiz is the author or editor of seven other books, including Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico. She lives in San Francisco.
Quotes
“The fact is that it was a revolutionary surge that opened the political space to allow for the blossoming of cultural and social creativity that couldn’t be reversed, even after the political movement itself had been repressed.”
Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975 “To me, the idea of U.S. military men on the Moon was scary rather than exciting, given what they were doing on planet Earth, and that the Moon trip was a military project.”
Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975 “Everything in US history is about the land-who oversaw and cultivated it, fished its waters, maintained its wildlife; who invaded and stole it; how it became a commodity (“real estate”) broken into pieces to be bought and sold on the market.”
Introduction “A number of independent nation-states with seats in the United Nations have less territory and smaller populations than some Indigenous nations of North America.”
Introduction “Influenced by Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, in which she advised that women were created not born, that a female was born and then forced into the social role of being a woman, we insisted the movement should be called female liberation.”
Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975
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Books by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz in order
Books by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz in the order they were published, from Female Liberation as the Basis for Social Revolution (1969) to Not "A Nation of Immigrants" (2021).
- 1Female Liberation as the Basis for Social RevolutionFemale Liberation as the Basis for Social Revolution1969
- 2Poor White WomenPoor White Women1970
- 3The Great Sioux Nation, Sitting in Judgement on America
The Great Sioux Nation, Sitting in Judgement on America1977 - 4Economic Development in American Indian Reservations
Economic Development in American Indian Reservations1979 - 5American Indian Energy Resources and Development
American Indian Energy Resources and Development1980 - 6Roots of Resistance
Roots of Resistance1980 - 7Indians of the Americas
Indians of the Americas1984 - 8The Miskito Indians of NicaraguaThe Miskito Indians of Nicaragua1988
- 9Red Dirt
Red Dirt1997 - 10James Joyce and the Tradition of Anti-colonial RevolutionJames Joyce and the Tradition of Anti-colonial Revolution1999
- 11Outlaw Woman
Outlaw Woman2001 - 12Blood on the Border
Blood on the Border2005 - 13An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States2014 - 14"All the Real Indians Died off" : And 20 Other Myths About N
"All the Real Indians Died off" : And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans2016 - 15Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment2018 - 16Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young PIndigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People2019
- 17Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"2021