Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
by Kathleen DuVal
🏆 Joint winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History
🏆 Joint winner of the 2025 Bancroft Prize
🏆 Winner of the 2024 Cundill History Prize
In this sweeping, thousand-year history, Kathleen DuVal—a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill—offers an overview of the shifting dynamics among more than 500 native peoples before and after the arrival of European colonists. The Wall Street Journal described it as “an essential American history.”
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