Indigenous Continent
The Epic Contest for North America
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Narrated by:
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Kaipo Schwab
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Written by:
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Pekka Hamalainen
About this listen
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent, and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction.
In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members, far from helpless victims of colonial violence, dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals.
Hämäläinen ultimately contends that the very notion of "colonial America" is misleading, and that we should speak instead of an "Indigenous America" that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial. Necessary listening for anyone who cares about America's past, present, and future, Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history.
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- Will
- 2024-01-25
Really great History
This is like Gibbons for North America. Fills in the gaps left by Francis Parkman by yelling NA history from the indigenous perspective.
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- paul summerville
- 2023-01-24
Important Perspective
As much as I better understand now how difficult it was for Europeans to subjugate indigenous North American populations, 400 years of war after all, the spin on the conclusion that the result was not wholly catastrophic is difficult to square with reality. Still very interesting and important.
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