Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

book by Kathleen DuVal

Themes: history, sovereignty, colonialism, power, survival

Reading status: Read

Notes from engaging with this book across different readings—the histories that stood out, the perspectives that shifted my thinking, the details that stuck.

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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal

For too long, most Americans didn't take oral history seriously, creating a mystery where there never was one. The question of who built these places and where they went are no mystery, O'odham elders and historians repeat: 'We've always lived here.'