American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as
historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah,
Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region
known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples
squarely at the center of a dynamic and complex story as he
chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that
profoundly shaped the American West.
On the distant margins of empire, Great Basin Indians
increasingly found themselves engulfed in the chaotic storms of
European expansion and responded in ways that refashioned
themselves and those around them. Focusing on Ute, Paiute, and
Shoshone Indians, Blackhawk illuminates this history through a lens
of violence, excavating the myriad impacts of colonial expansion.
Brutal networks of trade and slavery forged the Spanish
borderlands, and the use of violence became for many Indians a
necessary survival strategy, particularly after Mexican
Independence when many became raiders and slave traffickers.
Throughout such violent processes, these Native communities
struggled to adapt to their changing environments, sometimes
scoring remarkable political ends while suffering immense
reprisals.
"Violence over the Land" is a passionate reminder of the high
costs that the making of American history occasioned for many
indigenous peoples, written from the vantage point of an Indian
scholar whose own family history is intimately bound up in its
enduring legacies.
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