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Native America Calling: Native Bookshelf with Ned Blackhawk and Craig Santos Perez
Friday, February 2, 2024

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
Ned Blackhawk. Photo by Dan Renzetti
Craig Santos Perez
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
National Book Foundation: Ned Blackhawk accepts the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Rediscovery of America

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

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