A full retelling of U.S. history requires much more than a reckoning over disease, violence, and dispossession—it requires acknowledging the enduring power, agency, and survival of Native nations to create a truer account of the formation and expansion of the United States.
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Proudest announcement: Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History is coming to book stores March 2023!
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In a transformative synthesis, Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories to show
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that European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; that Native nations helped shape England’s crisis of empire; that the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior;
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that California Indians targeted by federally-funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War, that the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West, and that twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy.
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Studying and teaching America’s Indigenous truths reveals anew the varied meanings of America.
I am completely biased, but a remaking of the field of US history is long overdue and it is so important to have Native voices at the center of this project.
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History apparently available now for preorder: (thanks,
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Can’t wait for this! We saw a piece of it when Ned did the Horn lecture here, and have been looking forward ever since. Very exciting.
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