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A history of Native America [compact disc] / by Ned Blackhawk.

by Blackhawk, Ned.

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Prince Frederick, MD. : Recorded Books, p2010.

Indians of North America -- History.

9781449831141 (set)

1449831141 (set)

Modern scholar.

7 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 container insert (112 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.).

Native North America before 1492 -- The Columbian encounter, exchange, and conquest -- Native peoples and French, Dutch, and English colonies : the seventeenth century -- The play-off system and the Seven Years' War -- Native peoples and the Revolutionary Republic -- American Indians in the North American West before Lewis and Clark -- The Constitutional crisis of American Indian removal -- American Indians in the Civil War era -- The indigenous west of Mark Twain -- The age of assimiliation -- Early twentieth-century Indian activism and the Indian New Deal -- World War II and the rise of termination -- American Indian activism and self-determination -- The miner's canary : American Indian sovereignty in the twenty-first century.

Chronicles the history of Native America from the time shortly before the expeditions of Christopher Columbus to the present. Focusing on the Columbian Exchange, Indians and the American Constitution, American Indian Removal, the Civil War, and the modern age, Professor Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) of Yale University concludes his revealing course by addressing the issues that continue to affect Native Americans today.

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