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<p>A New History of Indigenous Power</p>
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<p>Pekka Hamalainen</p>
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<p><b>The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and
their profound role in shaping America’s history</b><br>
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<div><b>Named One of the <i>New York Times </i>Critics’ Top
Books of 2019 • Named One of the 10 Best History Books of
2019 by <i>Smithsonian Magazine </i> • Winner of the MPIBA
Reading the West Book Award for narrative nonfiction</b></div>
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"Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation
inside out."—Cornelia Channing, <i>Paris Review</i>, Favorite
Books of 2019</div>
<div>“My favorite non-fiction book of this year.”—Tyler Cowen, <i>Bloomberg
Opinion</i></div>
<div>"A briliant, bold, gripping history."—Simon Sebag
Montefiore, <i>London Evening Standard</i>, Best Books of
2019<br>
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“All nations deserve to have their stories told with this degree
of attentiveness”—Parul Sehgal, <i>New York Times</i>
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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.</div>
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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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<div><b>Pekka Hämäläinen</b> 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, <i>The
Comanche Empire</i>, won the Bancroft Prize in 2009.</div>
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<div class="col1"> <span class="highlight">ISBN:</span>
9780300215953<br>
<span class="highlight">Publication Date:</span> <span
class="date-display-single" content="2019-10-22T00:00:00-04:00">October
22, 2019</span><br>
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544 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4<br>
54 b/w illus.
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