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The Rediscovery of America - Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Hardcover)
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The Rediscovery of America - Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Hardcover)
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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, with 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.
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