WINNER OF THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE
Winner of the Bancroft Prize 2025
Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize 2025
For centuries, Europeans assumed that indigenous Americans lacked the sophistication to build cities and establish hierarchies. For over a millennium, prior to and after the arrival of white colonialists, however, native nations had been adapting to changing climates, founding and abandoning urban centres and forging complex, democratic societies.
In this magisterial new history of North America, Kathleen Du Val puts indigenous people back at the heart of the story. From the splendour of ancient cities like Cahokia and Moundsville to the careful diplomacy of native leaders in the face of colonial expansion, Native Nations reveals the diversity of indigenous civilisation and shows how a 1, 000-year legacy still shapes America today, in struggles over sovereignty, climate and indigenous rights.
About the author
Kathleen Du Val is a professor in the History Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Independence Lost and The Native Ground, and has written for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and for the Wall Street Journal. Her most recent book, Native Nations, won the 2024 Cundill History Prize.
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