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A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. Then, following a period of climate change and instability, numerous smaller nations emerged, moving away from rather than toward urbanization.
About the Author
Kathleen DuVal is a professor of early American history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (July 2015) and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2006) and the co-editor of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Early America (2009) . She received her Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Davis, in 2001. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina.
