Violence Over the Land

Posted on 15 January 2017 by Ned Blackhawk

In this ambitious text that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and eastern California, Ned Blackhawk places native peoples squarely at the centre of a dynamic and complex story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that profoundly shaped the American West. New Download [ Violence Over the Land ] By [ Ned Blackhawk ] – kino-fada.fr There s a lot to say about this book, not least of which is that it s a great survey of American Indians in the Great Basin at the time of colonization Blackhawk does a solid job of detailing the complex interactions between Indian tribes and colonizers, whether Spanish, Mexican, American, or Mormon settlers He also brings to light the relationships that existed between different tribes, giving a great overview of Indian slavery, a historical and human fact almost completely missing from tradi There s a lot to say about this book, not least of which is that it s a great survey of American Indians in the Great Basin at the time of colonization Blackhawk does a solid job of detailing the complex interactions between Indian tribes and colonizers, whether Spanish, Mexican, American, or Mormon settlers He also brings to light the relationships that existed between different tribes, giving a great overview of Indian slavery, a historical and human fact almost completely missing from traditional history.If I were to make any criticism of this book, it would be that it errs a little on the academic side of writing That is, there are thousands of human stories from this period, both wrenching and beautiful, that could be told inhuman terms I ...An important book that provides a history of the interaction between Native peoples in the intermountain region of the current Western United States and Spain from 1690s to 1850s Devastating cruelty and Native slavery By the time Americans arrived various Native tribal groups h...Ned Blackhawk s Violence over the Land presents the history of the Great Basin Indians and their interactions with the Spanish, British, and American empires Blackhawk responds in this book to many harmful myths about the conquest of the American West Most importantly, he undermines the idea of primitivism by presenting the Great Basin Indians as having a history, developing culturally, acting strategi...This is a dense and difficult book Its central thesis articulates how cycles of violence emanating from the colonization of the New World swept through Great Basin Native peoples The introduction of disruptive technologies e.g., horses, guns, metal implements increased the rewards to violence in the Great Basin and Great Plains regions of the US So...For Blackhawk, it is the harrowing, violent native histories which form the foundation of colonial America, and it is within this framework of violence that a larger understanding of American and indigenous history must be reconsidered Beginning with Ute Spanish relations in the 17th century, and continuing with 18th and 19th century colonial encroach...Here is a story from Native American history that you probably aren t familiar with Historian Ned Blackhawk studies the American Indians who lived in the Great Basin, from New Mexico to Montana, in the period from the Spanish conquest to the early 20th century He especially focuses on the Utes and Shoshone, with some mention of the Navajo, Apache and a few others whose stories intersect As the title indicates, there is violence aplenty, committed by all sides Spanish, French, Native American Here is a story from Native American history that you probably aren t familiar with Historian Ned Blackhawk studies the American Indians who lived in the Great Basin, from New Mexico to Montana, in the perio...The writing in the introduction was a bit of a put off as the pedantic language seemed to be straining too hard to make a point But, the body of the book flowed quickly with logically paced historical coverage This is a broad overview of a huge geographical area and its native inhabitants history The violence is not, as one might expect, only la...ute slavers show up at mormon settlements, demanding that the mormons buy the paiute women and children they d captured earlier mormons refuse out of principled humanitarianism the utes threaten to kill the captives unless the mormons buy them so the mormons buy them, release them for a short time and then decide that after all having your own paiute to haul water or cook for you is pretty nice and years later when a traveler passes through the mormon corridor he remarks every family had ute slavers show up at mormon settlements, demanding that the mormons buy the paiute women and children they d captured earlier mormons refuse out of principled humanitarianism the utes threaten to kill the captives unless the mormons buy them so the mormons buy them, release them for a short time and then decide that after all having your own paiute to haul water or cook for you is pretty nice and years later when a traveler passes through the mormon cor...Still on my to read list I really do intend to get to this bookBlackhawk writes a detailed, feeling history about a subject not discussed or taught as often as it should be slavery in the Southwest.

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15 January 2017

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