The I'm going to Welcome to the show Ned Blackcock. It's your first time being on the Red Nation

podcast but you are a friend and colleague of mine and we're here to talk about your new book which is the

Rediscovery of America Native Americans or Native peoples and the unmaking of US

history but before we start Ned do you want to just maybe talk a little bit about yourself?

Sure.

I'm Ned Blackhawk.

I'm a professor at Yale University where I've been teaching since 2009 and I taught before then at the University of Wisconsin for many years.

I'm an enrolled tribal member of the Tamoke tribe of Western Shoshoney

Indians in Nevada and spent much of my early academic and kind of young adult life, if not career, trying to make sense and study in certain ways,

the kind of history of the Great Basin, which a large basis for my first book.

And since that work I've been doing other things and coming to realize the kind of necessity to keep working to build larger consciousness around native issues in these

types of institutional spaces.

Yeah, there's a lot to be said about Yale University, but you and I first actually met, I don't even remember the year.

It was when you were at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and I was driving through with my cousin who was actually in the middle of a breakup.

We were driving cross country to take his stuff to, I think, somewhere in New England, Massachusetts somewhere, but it was a whole ordeal.

I just randomly stopped in, I think it was even during the summer months, and I was like,

I wonder if Ned Blackhawk is here and you just happened to be there and I

remember you gave me a book and it was Alan Taylor's American colonies.

Very ironic now.

Yeah.

Not sure why I would have given you that one, but maybe I was teaching it or something.

I think you just had extra copies around.

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