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Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History
It is impossible to understand the U.S. without understanding its Indigenous history, writes Ned Blackhawk.
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Ned Blackhawk
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Time
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April 26, 2023
Ned Blackhawk Wants to Unmake the U.S. Origin Story
Professor Blackhawk’s new volume attempts to put Native peoples’ stories at the center of the history of the United States.
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Ned Blackhawk
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Rhoda Feng
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Mother Jones
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April 24, 2023
The Iron Cage of Erasure: American Indian Sovereignty in Jill Lepore’s 'These Truths'
Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but.
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Ned Blackhawk
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Diplomatic History
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December 29, 2020
Book
The Rediscovery of America
: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk
2023
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