
Indigenous Continent
The Epic Contest for North America
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Narrated by:
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Kaipo Schwab
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By:
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Pekka Hamalainen
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. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent, and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction.
In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members, far from helpless victims of colonial violence, dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals.
Hämäläinen ultimately contends that the very notion of "colonial America" is misleading, and that we should speak instead of an "Indigenous America" that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial. Necessary listening for anyone who cares about America's past, present, and future, Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history.
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Indigenous Continent indeed
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An Indigenous view of American history
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The narrator pronounces a lot of non-English words wrong, including Spanish ones, and it gets very distracting later on when he keeps saying "pee-cos" but his performance is decent.
A Good Overview of History and decent performance
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Understanding the History
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Long but necessary
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indigenous Continent
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depth of History REAL History
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This book is beyond EXCELLENT.
It covers all one should know of how they were treated by the Europeans, which was despicable.
The discrimination goes on, even to this day.
This is a book that should be a required reading for all high school students.
The narrator, mr. Kaipo Schwab did an excellent job.
My thanks to all involved, JK.
A MUST READ FOR ALL
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Great Listen, bringing forward many native perspectives
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For all history fans
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