Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

A prize-winning scholar rewrites 400 years of American history from Indigenous perspectives, overturning the dominant origin story of the United States.There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches.

The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing “New World” as possible.

Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught.

White imperialists are destined to rule the continent, and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction.Yet as with other long-accepted origin stories, this one, too, turns out to be based in myth and distortion.