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We the People

Native Peoples and Redefining U.S. History

We the People

National Constitution Center

History, News Commentary, News

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Historians Ned Blackhawk and Brenda Child join for a conversation on Blackhawk’s national bestseller, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, which just won the National Book Award. They explore five centuries of U.S. history to shed light on the central role Indigenous peoples have played in shaping our nation’s narrative. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates. This program was streamed live on November 1, 2023. Resources: Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History   Brenda Child, Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000 Brenda Child, Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West Brenda Child, Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community Brenda Child, My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation Brenda Child and Brian Klopotek, Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education Michael Witgen, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America Questions or comments about the show? Email us at [email protected].  Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.  Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.  You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.

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0:00.0

Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution

0:07.0

Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

0:11.4

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit charted by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

0:20.0

This week Ned Blackhawk's the rediscovery of America, Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, won the National Book Award.

0:28.0

In this episode, we're thrilled to share a great discussion of Blackhawk's book which explores five centuries of US

0:33.7

history to shed light on the central role indigenous peoples have played in

0:37.8

shaping America. And that Blackhawk professor of history and American Studies at

0:41.6

Yale is joined by Northrop Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota,

0:46.8

Brenda Child. This program was streamed live on November 1st, 2023.

0:51.8

It is a great honor to introduce our panel.

0:57.0

We have two of America's greatest historians of Native Americans

1:02.0

and American history here to teach us about the central contribution

1:08.6

of that history from before the founding to today.

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Ned Blackhawk is the Howard R. Lamar,

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Professor of History and American Studies at Yale,

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where he's faculty coordinator for the Yale Group

1:20.0

for the study of Native America. He's a member of the Tamoke tribe of Western

1:25.6

Shashani Indians of Nevada and we're here to discuss his path-breaking new book

1:30.9

the Rediscovery of America Native Peoples peoples, and the unmaking of U.S. history.

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This important work has won widespread acclaim as our generation's leading account of the role of Native people throughout

1:48.4

U.S. history.

1:49.3

It's a finalist for the National Book Award and it's a great honor

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