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Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967-
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Indigenous peoples -- North America -- History.
Indians of North America -- History.
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.
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Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967-
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- History.
Indians of North America -- History.
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.
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Indigenous continent : the epic contest for North America / Pekka Hämäläinen.
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Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967-
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Call #:
970
.004
H999i
Subjects
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- History.
Indians of North America -- History.
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.
ISBN:
9781631496998 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 571 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-538) and index.
Summary:
"There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this:
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus 'discovers' a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing 'New World' as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent, and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction. Yet as with other long-accepted origin stories, this one, too, turns out to be based in myth and distortion. In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members, far from helpless victims of colonial violence, dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals. From the Iroquois in the Northeast to the Comanches on the Plains, and from the Pueblos in the Southwest to the Cherokees in the Southeast, Native nations frequently decimated white newcomers in battle. Even as the white population exploded and colonists’ land greed grew more extravagant, Indigenous peoples flourished due to sophisticated diplomacy and leadership structures. By 1776, various colonial powers claimed nearly all of the continent, but Indigenous peoples still controlled it -- as Hämäläinen points out, the maps in modern textbooks that paint much of North America in neat, color-coded blocks confuse outlandish imperial boasts for actual holdings. In fact, Native power peaked in the late nineteenth century, with the Lakota victory in 1876 at Little Big Horn, which was not an American blunder, but an all-too-expected outcome. Hämäläinen ultimately contends that the very notion of “colonial America” is misleading, and that we should speak instead of an 'Indigenous America'that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial. The evidence of Indigenous defiance is apparent today in the hundreds of Native nations that still dot the United States and Canada. Necessary reading for anyone who cares about America’s past, present, and future, Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history."--From publisher.
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