How Native Americans’ resistance shaped the United States
by Barbara Spindel
Dec 05, 2022
3 minutes
Pekka Hämäläinen begins his provocative history of the conquest of North America by describing a thriving group of hunter-gatherers who inhabited wide swaths of the land as far back as 10,000 B.C. It’s a fitting introduction to “Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America,” which centers the narrative on Native peoples rather than on European colonizers. While Native Americans have often been seen as tragic victims of history, Hämäläinen presents them instead as
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