Pekka Hamalainen’s impressive history is also a quarrel with the field, with how history - especially the history of indigenous Americans - has been told and sold. Look again, however, and you’ll catch something roiling beneath that professional composure: a lively truculence that gives this book its pulse, and its purpose. It is purportedly the first complete history of the Lakotas, the tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, the regime that long dominated the American interior, thwarting Western expansion with charm, shrewd diplomacy and sheer might. At first glance, “Lakota America” is every inch a sober, stately work of scholarship - and one long overdue.
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