A review by oisin175
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

Overall I think this book did an excellent job at conveying the history of indigenous groups in North America with regard to colonialism. This is especially important when it comes to clearing the evidence and demonstrating that the blinkered take mostly taught in school is both simplistic and wrong. Overall I liked this book, but I think the organization got a little disjointed at times. This must have been an incredibly difficult book to organize initially, but the author didn't always do a great job of sticking to the specific timelines specified for the various sections of the book. I'd recommend, but it might be useful to create a timeline of events as you go since there is a good deal of jumping around in both time and space.