We the People

Native Peoples and Redefining U.S. History


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Historians Ned Blackhawk and Brenda Child join for a conversation on Blackhawk’s national bestseller, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, which just won the National Book Award. They explore five centuries of U.S. history to shed light on the central role Indigenous peoples have played in shaping our nation’s narrative. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates. This program was streamed live on November 1, 2023. 


Resources: 

  •  Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History   
  • Brenda Child, Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000 
  • Brenda Child, Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 
  • Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory 
  • Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas 
  • Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 
  • Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West 
  • Brenda Child, Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community 
  • Brenda Child, My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation 
  • Brenda Child and Brian Klopotek, Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education 
  • Michael Witgen, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America 

     


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