Lakota America, Pekka Hamalainen
Lakota America, Pekka Hamalainen
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Lakota America
A New History of Indigenous Power

Author: Pekka Hamalainen

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 17 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/22/2019


Synopsis

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history

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.

About Pekka Hamalainen

Pekka Hamalainen is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University and the author of The Comanche Empire, winner of the Bancroft Prize, and Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power. He lives in Oxford, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lark on May 24, 2020

Incredibly thorough, and yet riveting. This is classical history, in both tone and scholarship--if that means something to anyone but me. It exposes the biases of western/white-oriented narratives of this era and geographic region, but it does so while using the same tools of erudition, and scholars......more

Goodreads review by Moonkiszt on September 05, 2019

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power This is a text that needs to get in front of students in these United States! History from a completely different point of view, where wasicu (white) politics are incidental for hundreds of years, until they become the problem. History told from the m......more

Goodreads review by James on September 21, 2021

My reception of Hamalainen's history was one of admiration but shifted into skepticism because I think he boxed himself into historical conclusions and positions which are unconvincing. I'd read his earlier history of the Comanche empire and was impressed with its treasure of historical perspectives......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn on August 29, 2019

What a book! Wonderfully well-researched with a huge scope, it would make a great textbook. It pales a little for a casual reader, however. For the "regular" enthusiast, it could be a little overwhelming. I found it fascinating......more

Goodreads review by Scriptor Ignotus on December 27, 2024

1776 was a definitive year for two great North American nations. A confederation of thirteen British colonies on the eastern seaboard, the western pole of the transatlantic British Empire, declared their independence from the mother country and turned their gaze toward the untapped bounties of the l......more