Violence over the land : Indians and empires in the early American West / Ned Blackhawk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackhawk, Ned.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Great Basin--History.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Wars--Great Basin.

Great Basin--History.

Great Basin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 372 pages ) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, c2006.

Summary:

In this ambitious book that ranges across the Great Basin, Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of a dynamic story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that shaped the American West. This book is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The indigenous body in pain

1. Spanish-Ute relations to 1750

2. The making of the New Mexican–Ute borderlands

3 The enduring Spanish-Ute alliance

4. Crisis in the New Mexican–Ute borderlands

5. Great Basin Indians in the era of Lewis and Clark

6. Colorado Utes and the traumatic storms of expansion

7. Utah’s Indians and the crisis of Mormon settlement

Epilogue: Born on the fourth of July, or Narrating Nevadan Indian histories

Chronology

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-357) and index.

ISBN:

9780674020993 (electronic book)

9780674262096

0674262093

9780674020993

0674020995

OCLC:

1294423305