[D66] Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power

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  Lakota America


    A New History of Indigenous Power

Pekka Hamalainen

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Format: Hardcover
Price: $35.00
YUP

*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 Book Award for narrative nonfiction*

"Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation inside 
out."—Cornelia Channing, /Paris Review/, Favorite Books of 2019
“My favorite non-fiction book of this year.”—Tyler Cowen, /Bloomberg 
Opinion/
"A briliant, bold, gripping history."—Simon Sebag Montefiore, /London 
Evening Standard/, Best Books of 2019
“All nations deserve to have their stories told with this degree of 
attentiveness”—Parul Sehgal, /New York Times/

This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and 
often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early 
twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas’ roots as 
marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves 
twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, 
America’s great commercial artery, and then—in what was America’s first 
sweeping westward expansion—as a horse people who ruled supreme on the 
vast high plains.

The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, 
Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American 
imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something 
different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring 
Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American 
interior for generations. Hämäläinen’s deeply researched and engagingly 
written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, 
and the results are revelatory.
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*Pekka Hämäläinen* is the Rhodes Professor of American History and 
Fellow of St. Catherine’s College at Oxford University. He has served as 
the principal investigator of a five-year project on nomadic empires in 
world history, funded by the European Research Council. His previous 
book, /The Comanche Empire/, won the Bancroft Prize in 2009.

ISBN: 9780300215953
Publication Date: October 22, 2019
544 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
54 b/w illus.
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