Lakota America
Book description
The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history
Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 * Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine * Winner of the MPIBA Reading the West…
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Leave it to a Finnish historian to fundamentally challenge and transform the way Americans understand the native American experience, post-European contact.
Beginning with The Comanche Empire and continuing with Lakota America, Hämäläinen, through exhaustive research, has forced us to see that not all native tribes were overwhelmed and decimated by the destructive force of European presence in North America.
Many tribes did succumb in this way, but there were those—like the Comanche and the Lakota Sioux—who took advantage of the disruptive force of European conquest to fashion ways of life and tribal organization that allowed them to thrive…
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