Pekka Hämäläinen

Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University. His new book is Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. He is also the author of The Comanche Empire, winner of the Bancroft Prize, and Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power.

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Colonial America Is a Myth

Rather than a “colonial America,” we should speak of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial.

By Pekka Hämäläinen
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