Jeffrey Ostler is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon and the author of The Lakotas and the Black Hills and The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee.
“Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. .
. . Ostler’s swift-paced yet meticulous coverage of the wars and
diasporas, great and small, and attendant fluctuations in native
populations has been assembled as if he intends it to be his
academic generation’s manifesto. . . . For many of us, I suspect,
who have researched and taught Indian–white relations most of our
lives, Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent
scholarship and teaching cannot retreat.”—Peter Nabokov, New York
Review of Books
Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize, sponsored by the
Organization of American Historians
Selected for Choice’s 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles List
“Jeffrey Ostler’s Surviving Genocide covers a full century and a
huge swath of territory but is never less than comprehensive. This
is benchmark history at its best.”—John Mack Faragher, Yale
University
“Stunning in its depth of research and scope of learning, Surviving
Genocide brings a new level of sophistication to the study of the
United States’ ‘Indian wars,’ revealing the genocidal impulse at
the core of the conflicts as well as the Native ingenuity that
prevented an even more profound loss of life and land.”—Karl
Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the
Violence of History
“Surviving Genocide provides a panoramic survey of American-Indian
relations and takes a hard look at U.S. policies that were
predicated, one way or another, on the removal of Native people; at
the same time, it offers important testimony on the resilience of
Native people who refused to disappear.”—Colin G. Calloway, author
of The Indian World of George Washington
“A landmark book essential to understanding American history,
Surviving Genocide is an act of courage. Ostler’s brilliant concept
of reconstructing ‘an Indigenous consciousness of genocide’ is
significant for its insight into how American Indians understood,
discussed, and resisted genocidal threats to their families,
communities, and nations. His modern vocabulary of ‘atrocities’ and
‘killing fields’ is not for political effect but appropriate to the
brutal reality of Indian policy in American history.”—Brenda Child,
Northrop Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota
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