Violence over the Land

Indians and Empires in the Early American West

Ned Blackhawk

  • 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
  • 2006 William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America
  • 2007 Robert M. Utley Award, sponsored by the Western History Association
  • 2007 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award, American Society of Ethnohistory
  • 2007 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association
  • 2008 John C. Ewers Western History Association Prize

Introduction: The Indigenous Body in Pain

1. Spanish-Ute Relations to 1750

2. The Making of the New Mexican–Ute Borderlands

3. The Enduring Spanish-Ute Alliance

4. Crisis in the New Mexican–Ute Borderlands

5. Great Basin Indians in the Era of Lewis and Clark

6. Colorado Utes and the Traumatic Storms of Expansion

7. Utah's Indians and the Crisis of Mormon Settlement

Epilogue: Born on the Fourth of July, or Narrating Nevadan Indian Histories

Chronology

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Violence over the Land
  • A photo of the author

Ned Blackhawk is Professor of History, Yale University.