![]() ![]() While traditional accounts of America’s evolution are often focused on stories of European “discovery,” Blackhawk says, it is instead the encounter of the new settlers with the Indigenous peoples that is central to the story of America’s birth and development.Ĭovering over 500 years of U.S. It’s been very exciting to see a cadre of scholars in the last generation or so look past, move past, and rehabilitate early American history, with Native American history as a dominant emphasis. Lamar Professor of History and American studies in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians in Nevada, writes in the book’s introduction. ![]() “Indigenous absence has been a long tradition of American historical analysis,” Blackhawk, the Howard R. ![]() It’s an omission that goes back to the country’s origins. History,” published by Yale University Press, Blackhawk aims to rectify this exclusion of Native peoples from historical narratives. In his new book, “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. Many Americans know more about the violence inflicted upon Native American peoples in the United States than they do about Native survival and influence in the nation’s development, says Yale historian Ned Blackhawk. ![]()
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