The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories center of attention on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, on the other hand, 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 very important to understanding the evolution of modern The united states.

Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the upward thrust of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that

• European colonization in the 1600s used to be never a predetermined success;

• Native nations assisted in shaping 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 a few of the first casualties of the Civil War;

• the Union victory perpetually 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 US and revealing anew the varied meanings of The united states.