The Rediscovery of America

Summary

A sweeping reinterpretation of United States history that places Native nations and Indigenous politics at the center of the national story from European contact to the late twentieth century. Blackhawk synthesizes decades of Native American studies scholarship to show how Indigenous diplomacy, warfare, and resistance shaped colonial expansion, the Constitution, westward conquest, and modern federal policy. The book argues that American history cannot be understood without reckoning fully with this presence.