Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, by Pekka Hämäläinen. Liveright. 576 pages. $40. In the 1630s, the powerful Pequot Confederacy of southern New England found itself beset by ...
The field of archaeology is known by many for its numerous controversies. Because archaeologists only study what few artifacts remain from a given time period, we often get a fragmentary or incomplete ...
Every now and then, two books appear that seem to be in quiet conversation, even when they come from opposite directions. Kathleen DuVal's "Native Nations" looks across centuries of North American ...