It couldn't have gone better. Overflow crowd. Lots of books sold. Lots of old friends and new. Great conversation with Phil Deloria and the audience. Lots of shoutouts to the works of colleagues, mentors, and friends, including Lin Fisher, Andrés Reséndez, James Brooks, Kathleen DuVal, Ned Blackhawk, Katharine Gerbner among others. Look for it on [...]
November is Native American Heritage Month! (It’s one of the reasons Basic Books decided to release Wakara’s America this month—at least I think!). In honor of this month, and to encourage readership of these vital texts, here are five books that helped me write Wakara’s America. I list them in no particular order. Ned Blackhawk’s Violence over the [...]
The most dangerous myth of Manifest Destiny is that it succeeded.
Today’s the day! Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West is officially published TODAY with Basic Books. Drawing together deep archival research with Native oral histories, archaeology, geology, and ecology, Wakara’s America offers an innovative new vision of the history of the American West with Native people at its center. It serves [...]
I had the great pleasure of talking about Wakara's America on Radio West with Doug Fabrizio! The studios for KUER are on Wakara Way (or near them?).
Max Perry Mueller 