Pekka Hämäläinen publishes monograph 'Lakota America, A New History of Indigenous Power'

Pekka Hämäläinen, Rhodes Professor of American History at St Catherine's College and member of the Oxford Centre for Global History, published a monograph entitled 'Lakota America, A New History of Indigenous Power'. 

This is the first complete account of the Lakota Indians and traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty‑first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas’ roots as marginal hunter‑gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley America’s great commercial artery, and then—in what was America’s first sweeping westward expansion—as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains.

The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Lakota America was published by Yale University Press.

Professor Hämäläinen's book received an excellent review in the New York Times which can be read here.