I
grew up near Seneca land in western New York and have always felt we’re only
told half the story of European and then United States interactions with Native
Americans. This book tells the missing half.
It’s certainly not the only
history written from the Indian point of view, but it is the most rigorous I have
come across; Blackhawk is a Yale historian and has won the Turner Award, the
top distinction among professional historians.
This
book is not balanced but does not claim to be, it recounts the sins of
Europeans, and (post-1789) Americans against Indians, including sins by the
Spanish and the French before English speakers took charge.
I hope Blackhawk’s
next book assesses Native American life today.
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America
* Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction
* A National Bestseller
"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…
This
is the prototypical midlist novel, neither high-literature nor trashy. A middle-aged mother tells her life’s story to her daughters – no tragedies but plenty
of what Grace Paley called “the little disturbances of man.”
The settings are a lake house and a summer-stock theater, two fundamentally pleasant topics. The book does not exactly build to a Hollywood ending, but the protagonist overcomes disappointment to find happiness in life, and that’s not common to contemporary novels.
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