The latest edition of an accessible and comprehensive survey of Native
America
In this newly revised third edition of Native America: A History,
Michael Leroy Oberg and Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich deliver a thoroughly
updated, incisive narrative history of North America's Indigenous
peoples. The authors aim to provide readers with an overview of the
principal themes and developments in Native American history, from the
first peopling of the continent to the present, by following twelve
Native communities whose histories serve as exemplars for the common
experiences of North America's diverse Indigenous nations. This textbook
centers the history of Native America and presents it as flowing through
channels distinct from those of the United States. This is a history of
nations not merely acted upon, but rather of those that have responded
to, resisted, ignored, and shaped the efforts of foreign powers to
control their story.
This new edition has been comprehensively updated in all its chapters
and expanded with wider coverage of the most significant recent events
and trends in Native America through the first two decades of the
twenty-first century. Native America: A History, Third Edition also
includes:
- A survey of pre-Columbian North American traditions and the various
ways in which these traditions were deployed to comprehend and respond
to the arrival of Europeans.
- In-depth examinations of how Native nations navigated the challenges
of colonialism and fought to survive while marginalized behind the
frontiers of European empires and the United States.
- Nuanced analyses of how Indigenous peoples balanced the economic
benefits offered by assimilation with the cultural and political
imperatives of maintaining traditions and sovereignty.
- An accessible presentation of American tribal law and the strategies
used by Native nations to establish government-to-government
relationships with the United States despite the repeated failures of
that state to honor its legal commitments.
Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students seeking a broad
historical treatment of Indigenous peoples in the United States, Native
America: A History, Third Edition will earn a place in the libraries of
anyone with an interest in seeking an authoritative and engaging survey
of Native American history.
