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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) Hardcover – April 25, 2023
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Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction • Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History • Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction
Named a best book of 2023 by New Yorker, Esquire, Barnes & Noble
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 • A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2023 • An NPR “Book We Love” for 2023
“Eloquent and comprehensive. . . . In the book’s sweeping synthesis, standard flashpoints of U.S. history take on new meaning.”—Kathleen DuVal, Wall Street Journal
“In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental—either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . [shows] that Native communities have, instead, been inseparable from the American story all along.”—Washington Post Book World, “Books to Read in 2023”
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America
The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, as a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that
• European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success;
• Native nations helped shape England’s crisis of empire;
• the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior;
• California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War;
• the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West;
• twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy.
Blackhawk’s retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.
- Print length616 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication dateApril 25, 2023
- Dimensions6.45 x 1.55 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-100300244053
- ISBN-13978-0300244052
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“Even as the telling of American history has become more complex and nuanced, Native Americans tend to be absent. Blackhawk, a professor at Yale, confronts that absence in this sweeping account of how Native Americans shaped the country legally, politically, and culturally.”—Washington Post, “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction” (2023)
“A sweeping, important, revisionist work of American history that places Native Americans front and center.”—New York Times Book Review (cover review)
“[A] monumental reappraisal of the United States’ history. . . . Blackhawk . . . foregrounds the endurance of Native Americans’ autonomy and traditions in the face of their near-eradication.”—New Yorker, “The Best Books of 2023”
“An ambitious retelling of the American story . . . placing Indigenous populations at the center, a shift in perspective that yields fresh insights and thought-provoking questions.”—Greg Cowles, New York Times Book Review, “Editors’ Choice”
“In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental—either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . challenges those minimalizations and exclusions, showing that Native communities have, instead, been inseparable from the American story all along.”—Washington Post Book World, “Books to Read in 2023”
“This ambitious retelling of the American story, by a historian who is also a Native American, places Indigenous populations at the center, a shift in perspective that yields fresh insights and thought-provoking questions.”—New York Times, “100 Notable Books of 2023”
“[Blackhawk’s] book will become an indispensable text for a generation of researchers, educators and students.”—Caroline Dodds Pennock, BBC History Magazine
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best Book of 2023
“Gripping and nuanced, The Rediscovery of America is an essential remedy to the historical record.”—Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire, “The 20 Best Books of 2023”
“Building on years of groundbreaking work by Indigenous and settler scholars, Rediscovery clearly sets out how Indigenous nations were key actors in shaping the very foundations of the US, from the American Revolution and the national Constitution to the country’s eventual borders.”—Brian Bethune, The Walrus
“Blackhawk demonstrates how inextricably linked Indigenous history is with all aspects of American life and politics in this expansive survey, which teases out the deep connection between the aims and attitudes of the developing nation and its dealings with Native peoples. Reorienting the history of America as foremost that of an Indigenous colony, Blackhawk calls for a fundamental change of perspective.”—Publishers Weekly
“A thoughtful, innovative, and provocative book. . . . The legends about the founding and growth of the United States have been promulgated so often and so widely that Blackhawk’s conception of American history is long overdue. It is, more than any other attempt at re-interpreting our national story, US history turned upside down.”—David Shribman, Boston Globe
“Ned Blackhawk has opened the door to a national conversation. . . . While academics and educators can argue about whether Blackhawk’s new paradigm should replace existing frameworks for understanding American history, he has succeeded in demonstrating that a deeper knowledge of Native American history should supplement (if not supplant) our understanding of our collective national experience. . . . It’s a conversation worth having. And long overdue.”—Sara Bhatia, Washington Monthly
“Striking a masterful balance between the big picture and crystal-clear snapshots of key people and events, this is a vital new understanding of American history.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Illuminating and ambitious, . . . rewarding and essential.”—Patrick Rapa, Philadelphia Inquirer, “Best New Books to Read in May”
“Deeply researched and engagingly written, the book is a monumental achievement.”—Rhoda Feng, Mother Jones
“A wide-ranging study that moves Indigenous peoples from the periphery to the core of continental history.”—Kirkus Reviews
“As Blackhawk puts it, ‘Encounter—rather than discovery—must structure America’s origins story.’ The Rediscovery of America shows the power of encounter in many places—from the Monroe Doctrine to Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty.”—Craig Fehrman, Boston Globe
“Raise your hand if you didn’t learn Indigenous history in school—or if you only learned a racist, white-centric, colonizer version of it. Infuriatingly, the prevalence of harmful myths about Native history is still far, far too common. In this comprehensive history of Native America, Ned Blackhawk adds his voice to the growing chorus of Indigenous scholars and historians who are fighting back against this erasure.”—Laura Sackton, Book Riot
“Blackhawk argues that U.S. history cannot be understood without understanding how Indigenous and settler histories are interwoven.”—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
“Blackhawk . . . masterfully webs together a challenge of the nationalist, oversimplified narratives Americans know so well. . . . I found nuggets on every page. I could have spent weeks poring over the bibliography, running back and forth between Blackhawk’s synthesis and other sources. There’s so much to learn and absorb. It’s my hope that this book gets into the hands of every history teacher in this country.”—Izzie Ramirez, Vox
“Engrossing and thought-provoking, . . . highlight[ing] the myriad ways Indigenous people have shaped the United States’ politics, Constitution, diplomacy and culture.”—Bridget Bentz, NPR’s “Books We Love” for 2023
“Eschewing reductive or binary narratives, Blackhawk approaches the history of America as an overlay of stories that both intertwine and diverge. Of course, the center of his chronicle is the reality that the space occupied by the world’s model for democracy is land that was taken from Indigenous people. From first contact, through wars, revolution, and ever-changing federal policy, Blackhawk’s National Book Award–winning text shows how Native people shaped America’s story.”—Ryan Winn, Tribal College Journal, “Best Native Studies Books of 2023”
“Blackhawk’s achievement in the book is to direct our attention to the many ways in which U.S. history is closely intertwined with that of Native Americans; he shows how interactions with native peoples have shaped not only ideas of American nationhood but even constitutional structures.”—The Bulwark
2023 National Book Award winner, nonfiction category, sponsored by the National Book Foundation
2024 Mark Lynton History Prize winner, sponsored by Columbia School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation
Finalist, 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
Selected for the 2024 Michigan Notable Books list
2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner, nonfiction category, sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation
“The Rediscovery of America is a testimony to the transformation of the field of American Indian history over the past several decades, and Blackhawk has abandoned the ‘interpretive tools’ of generations of American historians.”—Brenda J. Child, University of Minnesota
“Ned Blackhawk’s elegant and sweeping account of American history illuminates five centuries of Native American history. He upends familiar narratives to reveal the enduring centrality and vitality of Native peoples in American political life.”—Barbara Krauthamer, Emory University
“Ned Blackhawk not only restores Native Americans to the core of the continent’s story but also offers a running analysis spanning immense times and climes.”—Andrés Reséndez, author of Conquering the Pacific
“On his search to rediscover America, Blackhawk brilliantly rewrites U.S. history, illustrating that it cannot be told absent American Indians. This is the history text we have been waiting for.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
“Richly told and deeply informed, The Rediscovery of America demonstrates the centrality of Indigenous Americans to U.S. history. Blackhawk shows that at every turn the enduring relations between natives and newcomers have shaped the course of the American republic.”—Claudio Saunt, author of the National Book Award finalist Unworthy Republic
“Ranging across the continent and across the centuries, Ned Blackhawk skillfully interweaves American history and Native American history, demonstrating conclusively that we cannot properly understand one without the other.”—Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College
“Refusing to tell simple stories of subordination or resistance, Ned Blackhawk shows how American politics, law, diplomacy, the economy, and popular culture become incomprehensible without a Native presence.”—Richard White, Stanford University
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- Publisher : Yale University Press (April 25, 2023)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 616 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0300244053
- ISBN-13 : 978-0300244052
- Item Weight : 2.34 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.45 x 1.55 x 9.5 inches
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I read it slow because it is an academic work. It is dense with information. Each section has a view that makes what is happening look different because the perspective is different but by the end of the section, it gives a fuller telling of the events.
There are points where I felt it meandered, but overall, it was a solid read. Again, it is an academic read so it can get dry and overwhelm with facts, but I expected that. Each section was like reading a book unto itself so in the end, it felt like a history collection.
I would strongly recommend it to everyone from politicians, to captains of industry, and especially teachers at all levels.
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THE BOOK is a fat book of 445 pages of text (2) with 12 chapters, divided into two parts. Part I discusses the European imperial history in North America with English, French, Dutch and Spanish colonists. Part II discusses the post-revolutionary republic of the United States of America, its consolidation, its move westwards, the Russians along the northern Pacific coast and the struggles of sovereignty between the United States and the Native nations. (3). There are 10 maps and 20 matt illustrations of various sizes, all in black and white (4).
LOOK INSIDE: This option lists, from the start of the book, the Contents, the first map, the Introduction and most of the first chapter “American Genesis”; it also lists, from the end of the book, the Notes, Acknowledgments and Index.
THE AUTHOR: Ned Blackhawk (Western Shosone) is Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Study of Native America. He is the author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
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(1) “Indigenous absence has been a long tradition of American historical analysis. Building upon a generation of recent scholarship in Indigenous history, this book joins the many scholars who are creating a different view of the past, a reorientation of U.S. history.”
(Introduction, page 2 and its reference Susan Smith, Why You Can’t Teach United State History without American Indians )
(2) It is even fatter if you include the 102 pages of Notes at the end of the book. This is despite most of the notes being short references to sources used.
(3) CONTENTS
Introduction: Toward a New American History (11 pages)
PART I
1. American Genesis: Indians and the Spanish
Spain’s Earliest American Conquests – The Meeting: Spanish and Nahua Empire in Mexico – De Soto and Coronado across the Spanish Borderlands; 1539-42 – The Colonization of the Silver Frontier: The Mixtón War of 1540-41 and After – Juan de Oñate and the Conquest of New Mexico – Pueblo Struggle and Survival: The 1800s – The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 – New Mexico’s Growing Heterogeneity and Diversity: The 1700s
2. The Native Northeast and the Rise of British North America
The Violent Origins of British North America – Ideologies of Difference: Puritanism – The Native Northeast on the Eve of Colonization – English Enslavement of Native Peoples: Tisquantum’s travels – Puritan Settlement upon a Widowed Land – Wampum and Anglo-Dutch Rivalry on Long Island Sound – The Battle for Long Island Sound: The Pequot War (1636-37)
3. The Unpredictability of Violence: Iroquoia and New France to 1701
Initial Encounters: Champlain and the Iroquois Confederacy – The Centrality of Violence in the Atlantic World – the Rise of the Dutch-Iroquois Alliance – The Iroquois and Wendat Confederacies in the Age of Disease – Origins of Iroquois Expansion – The Effects of Iroquois Assaults on Wendake: 1648-53 – the Iroquois and the Remaking of New France – The Great Peace of 1701
4. The Native Inland Sea: The Struggle for the Heart of the Continent
After 1701: The Reconfiguration of Iroquois Power in the Eighteenth Century – Trade, Mediation, Justice, and Religion: French Ties across the Interior – Intermarriage, Kinship and Sexuality – Indigenous Warfare and Captivity along the Violent Edges of Empire – Alliances and Tensions: The Origins of the Seven Years’ War – The Beginnings of the Firs World War – An Interior Still at War
5. Settler Uprising: The Indigenous Origins of the American Revolution
The Unexpected Costs of the Seven Years’ War – Cultural Hybridity and Indigenous Power After 1760 – Religious Diversity across the Interior – Neolin and the Troubled Aftermath of War – Pontiac’s Uprising and the Revolutionary Costs of Peace – Western Pennsylvania and the Crisis of British Imperialism – The Conestoga Massacre of 1763 and the Expansion of Racial Violence – Colonial Divisions and Endemic Indian Violence – Pontiac’s War and the Political Culture of Interior Settlements – “To Serve the Enemies of Mankind”; The Indigenous Origins of the Revolution – After 1765
6. Colonialism’s Constitution: The Origins of Federal Indian Policy
American Indians and the Revolutionary Republic – Interior Indian Lands and the Origins of American Federalism – The Chaotic Interior and the Republic’s Search for Order – When States Illegally Seized Indian Lands: New York and Iroquoia in the 1780s – Virginians View Indian Lands: Washington’s Proposal of 1784 – American Federalism, American Indians – The Failures of the Article of Confederation – Indians and the U.S. Constitution
PART II
7. The Deluge of Settler Colonialism: Democracy and Dispossession in the Early Republic
Racial Formations and the Market Revolution – A Deluge of Opportunities – Whiteness, Gender, and Naturalization – Myth Making in the American Imagination – Expulsion or Incorporation: The Ambiguity of Indian Policy – Early Federal-Indian Diplomacy – Slave Revolts and Interior Indian Campaigns, 1791-1800 – Indian Treaty Making and the Practices of Federal Power – Jay’s Treaty, the Treaty of Greenville, and Foreign and Domestic Affairs – Treaty Making and the Origins of the Louisiana Purchase – Indians and States’ Rights in the South – Indian Removal and the Marshall Court
8. Foreign Policy Formations: California, the Pacific, and the Borderlands Origins of the Monroe Doctrine
Mission Uprising: Persecution and Colonialism – Changes in California’s Maritime Economy – Imperialists from the North: The Russian-American Company – The Pacific Coast in the Age of Revolution – Attempted Incorporations of the Northwest – The Economic and Epidemiological Roots of Dependency – Smallpox and the Reordering of Western Indian Societies – Missouri and the Crisis of Mexican Independence – Borderlands Standoff: Florida and Spain’s Crumbling Empire – Seminole War and the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 – James Monroe, John Marshall, and the Doctrines of 1823
9. Collapse and Total War: The Indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War
Settler Booms and the Absence of the State – The Dakota War and Indigenous Genocide – California Militias at the Beginning of the Civil War – the Civil War and the Union’s Ineffective Indian Office – Settler Colonialism and Infrastructure during the Civil War – The Hybridity of the Southwest – Treaty Making on the Northern Plains – Oklahoma Indians and the Crisis of Secession – Western Mining and Economic Booms – California Volunteers outside of California: From Owens Valley to Bear River – The Long Walk and Confinement at Bosque Redondo – The Road to Sand Creek
10. Taking Children and Treaty Lands: Laws and Federal Power during the Reservation Era
The West’s New Legal Regimes – New Land and Educational Policies – Indians, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Growth of the Federal Government – Treaty Making during Reconstruction – Infrastructure and Environmental Change – The Origins of the Great Sioux Reservation – The Great Sioux War and Centennial America – The Challenges of Assimilation – Expansion of the Assimilation Campaign: 1880s-1920s – The Supreme Court Affirms the Plenary Power Doctrine – The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890
11. Indigenous Twilight at the Dawn of the Century: Native Activists and the Myth of Indian Disappearance
World’s Fairs and the Politics of Representation – American Imperialism and Growing Movements of Indigenous Resistance – The Society of American Indians – The Vexed Place of Citizenship: Communal Sovereignty versus Individualism – Laura Cornelius Kellogg’s Internationalism and Iroquois Advocacy – Allotment, Race, and the Meriam Report’s ‘Problem of Indian Administration’ – Henry Roe Cloud and Elizabeth Bender Cloud’s Shared Visions of Empowerment – The Great Depression and the Indian New Deal – Activism at the Local and National Levels: The Origins of the Hualapai Decision
12. From Termination to Self-Determination: Native American Sovereignty in the Cold War Era
Native Americans and World War II – The Early Cold War in Indian Country – Ideology versus Practice: The Twisted Implementation of Termination – Reservation Resources and Menominee Termination – The Cold War and the Racial Logic of Termination – Termination and Indian Child Welfare – The Rising Tide of Red Power – The Road to Self-Determination: 1969-78 – Expansion and Backlash: Self-Determination in the Late Twentieth Century
Notes (102 pages)
Index (44 pages)
(4) MAPS
Pre-contact or pre-removal Native nations (2 pages and in Look inside)
European forts before 1787 (2 pages)
Seventeenth-century Iroquois raids (½ page)
North American locations of the Seven Years’ War (2 pages)
Interior Indian groups, regions, and typography (1 page)
Treaties with Native nations after 1787 (2 pages)
Native nations of California (1 page)
Great Sioux Reservation (½ page)
Selected Indian boarding schools (½ page)
Contemporary Native nations (2 pages)
ILLUSTRATIONS
All the illustrations are in black and white. Although some of the illustrations were originally also in black and white, such as the engravings and the photographs, many of the other illustrations would be much better in their original colour.
The first illustration is an engraving of the battle in 1609 between Samuel de Champlain and his Native allies against Mohawk soldiers (also in Look inside). There are representations of people such as John Verelst’s painting of Tejonihokarawa, Alfred Hoffy’s portrait of Tshusick , a statue of Popé ( Po’Pay ) in the US Capitol building, a mural on a wall in Los Angeles of Toypurina and a photo of Laura Cornelius Kellogg.
Other illustrations include: a picture of the Spanish setting dogs on Indigenous nobles, 1560; a wampum belt; a painting of the Iroquois Creation Story; a painting from 1780 of French and Indian dress; the front cover of Benjamin Franklin’s A narrative of the late massacres, in Lancaster County, of a number of Indians ; a painting by J W Hill in 1829 of the newly built Erie Canal and photographs of Indian schools.