Kathleen DuVal Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

‌《Native Nations: A Millennium in North America》‌是由美国历史学家、北卡罗来纳大学历史学教授凯瑟琳·杜瓦尔（Kathleen DuVal）所著的一部力作。这本书以宏大的历史视角，深入探讨了北美洲原住民国家的历史，从古代城市的兴起到当今的主权斗争，为读者呈现了一幅丰富多彩、充满力量的历史画卷。

本书的时间跨度超过一千年，从北美洲原住民文明的兴起讲起，直至现代原住民为争取主权而进行的斗争。杜瓦尔教授在书中挑战了主流叙事，驳斥了欧洲人的到来导致北美原住民文明终结的理论，转而揭示了各民族之间的互动和复杂关系。

杜瓦尔教授在书中提出的观点，对于理解北美洲原住民历史具有颠覆性的意义。她挑战了以往将原住民历史视为欧洲殖民史附庸的传统观点，强调。本书在学术上填补了关于北美洲原住民历史的某些空白，为读者提供了更为全面和深入的历史认知。

‌康迪尔历史奖‌：2024年，凯瑟琳·杜瓦尔凭借《Native Nations》一书获得了麦吉尔大学主办的康迪尔历史奖，这一奖项进一步证明了本书在学术界的影响力和价值。对于想要深入了解北美洲原住民历史的读者来说，本书无疑是一个不可错过的选择‌。

书名：Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

作者：Kathleen DuVal

简介：A sweeping history of the power of Indigenous North America from ancient cities to fights for sovereignty that continue today, from an award-winning historian

In this magisterial history, Kathleen DuVal tells the story of Native nations, from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to the present, reframing North American history with Indigenous power and sovereignty at its center. Before and during European colonization, Indigenous North Americans built diverse civilizations and lived in history, adapting to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. As DuVal explains, no civilization came to a halt when a few wandering explorers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed.

A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size, but following a period of climate change and instability DuVal shows how numerous smaller nations emerged from previously centralized civilizations, moving away from rather than toward urbanization. From this urban past, patterns of egalitarian government structures, diplomacy, and complex economies spread across North America. So, when Europeans arrived in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand, having developed differently from their own, and whose power they often underestimated. For centuries after these first encounters, Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. In Native Nations , we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutch--and influenced global markets--and how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution, but Indigenous people continued to control the majority of the continent. Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa forged new alliances and encouraged a controversial new definition of Native identity to attempt to wall off U.S. ambitions. The Cherokees created new institutions to assert their sovereignty on the global stage, and the Kiowas used their preponderance of power in the west to regulate the passage of white settlers across their territory.

In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal uses these stories to show how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant and will continue far into the future.