Pekka Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at the University of Oxford and the author of The Comanche Empire, winner of the Bancroft Prize, and Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power. He lives in Oxford, England.
"When [John] Donne exclaimed ‘O my America! My new-found-land’ to
his latest girlfriend, he was oblivious to the long history of that
territory so painstakingly mapped by Pekka Hämäläinen in Indigenous
Continent: The Epic Contest for North America."
*Paul Muldoon - The Times Literary Supplement*
"[M]agisterial . . . the pace and the scope of the book have a
force of their own: Hämäläinen makes it clear that America’s past
is crazily, energetically, tumultuously crowded with incident; that
Indigenous power has affected everything about America . . . I can
only wish that, when I was that lonely college junior and was
finishing Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I’d had Hämäläinen’s book
at hand. It would have helped me see that there was indeed a larger
story: that my civilization hadn’t been destroyed; that my tribe’s
contribution to the past wasn’t merely to fade away in the face of
history; that Native peoples—for better or for worse—made this
country what it was, and have a role to play in what it now
struggles to be."
*David Treuer - The New Yorker*
"T]he single best book I have ever read on Native American history,
as well as one of the most innovative narratives about the
continent."
*Thomas E. Ricks - The New York Times Book Review*
"[A] towering achievement. By gathering the experiences of multiple
Native peoples—across an astounding expanse of time and
space—Indigenous Continent explodes the view that American history
unfolded inexorably according to European and American des"
*Andrew Graybill - The American Scholar*
"The author, an Oxford historian, recasts the history of North
America from a Native American perspective, making clear
that Native tribes controlled the continent for millenniums (‘On an
Indigenous time scale, the United States is a mere speck’). One of
t"
*The New York Times Book Review*
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