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The Rediscovery of America

Ned Blackhawk

How does American history look when told from the viewpoint of the Native peoples whose homelands the nation grew from?

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Author
Ned Blackhawk

Why read it

  • You will understand the author's case that American democracy arose from the dispossession of Native peoples
  • You will learn to question the old tale of settlers pushing into empty frontiers
  • You will see Native nations as actors in events like the American Revolution, not only as victims of them

Who it is for

  • Readers who learned a one sided version in school
  • Teachers building a fuller American history unit
  • Anyone asking what nationhood owes to those displaced

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Toward a New American History
  3. PART I INDIANS AND EMPIRES
  4. 1 • American Genesis
  5. Indians and the Spanish Borderlands
  6. 2 • The Native Northeast and the Rise of British North America
  7. 3 • The Unpredictability of Violence
  8. Iroquoia and New France to 1701
  9. 4 • The Native Inland Sea
  10. The Struggle for the Heart of the Continent, 1701–55
  11. 5 • Settler Uprising
  12. The Indigenous Origins of the American Revolution
  13. 6 • Colonialism’s Constitution
  14. The Origins of Federal Indian Policy
  15. PART II STRUGGLES FOR SOVEREIGNTY
  16. 7 • The Deluge of Settler Colonialism
  17. Democracy and Dispossession in the Early Republic
  18. 8 • Foreign Policy Formations
  19. California, the Pacific, and the Borderlands Origins of the Monroe Doctrine
  20. 9 • Collapse and Total War
  21. The Indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War
  22. 10 • Taking Children and Treaty Lands
  23. Laws and Federal Power during the Reservation Era
  24. 11 • Indigenous Twilight at the Dawn of the Century
  25. Native Activists and the Myth of Indian Disappearance
  26. 12 • From Termination to Self-Determination
  27. Native American Sovereignty in the Cold War Era

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