Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America Hmlinen Pekka
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America Hmlinen Pekka There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back…
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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America Hmlinen Pekka
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible.
In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hmlinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent, and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction.Yet as with other long-accepted origin stories, this one, too, turns out to be based in myth and distortion. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign