Native America Calling: Native Bookshelf with Ned Blackhawk and Craig Santos Perez

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Native America Calling: Native Bookshelf with Ned Blackhawk and Craig Santos Perez

Friday, February 2, 2024

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Native Bookshelf: Ned Blackhawk and Craig Santos Perez

Two of the newest National Book Award winners reinterpret conventional views of their homelands through their unique, Indigenous lenses.

Yale historian Dr. Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) reexamines five centuries of U.S. history in his new book Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. He explores Native people’s overlooked role from the arrival of Spanish explorers to self-determination.

And a collection of experimental and visual poems, from unincorporated territory [åmot], by Dr. Craig Santos Perez (Chamoru) recounts recollections of his homeland of Guam. Åmot is the medicine he invokes to heal colonial traumas.

Native America Calling speaks with both of the authors about these new works and the Indigenous histories they rediscover.

Ned Blackhawk. Photo by Dan Renzetti

Craig Santos Perez. Photo by Fuzheado

Guests on Native America Calling

Dr. Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University and author of Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Dr. Craig Santos Perez (Chamoru), author of from unincorporated territory [åmot]

National Book Award Speeches

Ned Blackhawk accepts the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Rediscovery of America

The National Book Award for Nonfiction was presented by panel chair Ada Ferrer. Also features a voice-over by Trevor Noah—comedian, writer, and the former ho…

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National Book Foundation: Ned Blackhawk accepts the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Rediscovery of America

Craig Santos Perez accepts 2023 National Book Award, Poetry for from unincorporated territory [åmot]

The National Book Award for Poetry was presented by panel chair Heid E. Erdrich. Also features a voice-over by Samin Nosrat—chef, author of Salt Fat Acid Hea…

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National Book Foundation: Craig Santos Perez accepts 2023 National Book Award, Poetry for from unincorporated territory [åmot]