Violence over the Land Indians and Empires in the Early American West

Name: Violence over the Land Indians and Empires in the Early American West
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ISBN: 9780674027206

ISBN-10: 0674027205

ISBN-13: 9780674027206

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ned Blackhawk

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American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic and complex story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that profoundly shaped the American West. On the distant margins of empire, Great Basin Indians increasingly found themselves engulfed in the chaotic storms of European expansion and responded in ways that refashioned themselves and those around them. Focusing on Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone Indians, Blackhawk illuminates…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction: The Indigenous Body in Pain



Spanish-Ute Relations to 1750



The Making of the New Mexican-Ute Borderlands



The Enduring Spanish-Ute Alliance



Crisis in the New Mexican-Ute Borderlands



Great Basin Indians in the Era of Lewis and Clark



Colorado Utes and the Traumatic Storms of Expansion



Utah's Indians and the Crisis of Mormon Settlement


Epilogue: Born on the Fourth of July, or Narrating Nevadan Indian Histories


Chronology


Abbreviations


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index