Pekka Hämäläinen - Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power

LAKOTA AMERICA

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Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Past President of Yale University

William J. Cronon, University of WisconsinMadison

Philip J. Deloria, Harvard University

John Mack Faragher, Yale University

Jay Gitlin, Yale University

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Virginia J. Scharff, University of New Mexico

Robert M. Utley, Former Chief Historian, National Park Service

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A New History of Indigenous Power

Pekka Hmlinen

Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund.
Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund.
Published with assistance from the John R. Bockstoce Endowment Fund.

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I owe many institutions and individuals thanks for their help and support in writing this book. I have been extraordinarily fortunate to have Briony Truscott manage the Nomadic Empires project and wish to express my deep gratitude to her. Many friends and colleagues have read all or parts of the manuscript, spent time talking with me about my project, and offered their expertise. I would like to thank Rani Anderson, Sean Archer, Juliana Barr, Ned Blackhawk, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Kingsley Bray, Bruce Brown Wolf, Jay Buckley, Marcel Bull Bear, Jane Burbank, Richard Carwardine, Frederic Cooper, Julien Cooper, Brian Delay, Philip Deloria, Jane Dinwoodie, Willy Dobak, Tawa Ducheneaux, Marie Favereau, Alex Fire Thunder, Catharine Franklin, Gary Gerstle, Dakota Wind Goodhouse, Steven Hahn, Tiffany Hale, Ryan Hall, Richard Iron Cloud, Stella Iron Cloud, Mandy Izadi, Karl Jacoby, Goedarz Karimi, Ari Kelman, Tilda Long Soldier, Ben Madley, Bryan Miller, Kathryn Olivarius, Brian One Feather, Jeffrey Ostler, Sarah Pearsall, Laura Peers, Maya Petrovich, Marie Randall, Akim Reinhardt, Irina Shingiray, Mark St. Pierre, Alan Taylor, Tim Vasko, Michael Witgen, and John Wunder. I owe each of them a large debt of gratitude. I would also like to thank friends in the Oxford History Department and the Rothermere American Institute, especially Aileen Mooney and Jane Rawson, for all the help along the way.

I have presented parts of this book in seminars at the University of Cambridge, New York University, and the University of Oxford and wish to thank the participants for their comments and advice.

Elliott West and Richard White read the full manuscript for Yale University Press and gave exceptional feedback. I deeply appreciate their help. They and the other readers saved me from many mistakes. Those that remain are mine alone.

For their vital help I wish to thank the archivists and librarians at the Bodleian Library; the Library of Congress; the National Archives; the Missouri Historical Society; the Missouri History Museum, Library and Research Center; the Nebraska State Historical Society; the Newbery Library; the Oglala Lakota College; and the State Archives of the South Dakota Historical Society. I also wish to extend grateful thanks to Mark Holman at the Sitting Bull College Library; Michael Moore of the Sitting Bull College faculty; Jennifer Martel at the Sitting Bull College Visitor Center; and Nicolas Texier at Service Historique de la Dfense.

Lindsay Marshall offered efficient research assistance in Oklahoma, and I owe her a debt of gratitude. Morgane Muscat provided invaluable help with French colonial documents. Adina Berk at Yale University Press guided the manuscript into production with keen insight. I am very grateful to Eliza Childs for superb copyediting and for making the final stretch of the manuscript preparation so rewarding and enjoyable. It was a great pleasure to work with Bill Nelson again on the maps.