"Native Nations: A Millennium in North America" — Signed by the author, Kathleen DuVal, who won the Pulitzer for this book

The 2025 Pulitzer Prize-winning book for history signed by the author, Kathleen DuVal. Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. 752 pp. Can be inscribed. See below for details.

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From the publisher

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history” (The New York Review of Books).

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE, THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE, AND THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE.

From the publisher:

From the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal presents a sweeping history of Indigenous North America.

Long before European colonization, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. Over time, Indigenous nations developed egalitarian governments, diplomacy, complex economies, and powerful systems of trade.

When Europeans arrived, they encountered societies they did not understand and whose power they often underestimated. For centuries afterward, Indigenous people maintained influence and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. Mohawks controlled trade with the Dutch and influenced global markets, while Quapaws manipulated French colonists.

Even after the American Revolution, Indigenous people continued to command much of the continent's land and resources. From Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa's efforts to unite Native nations to the Cherokees' institutions for sovereignty and the Kiowas' regulation of white settlers, Native Nations shows how Indigenous power and influence endured and evolved across a millennium of history.

Reviews

“An essential American history . . . DuVal fuses a millennium of Native American history into a thought-provoking, persuasive whole.” — The Wall Street Journal

“A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history . . . " — The New York Review of Books

“Extraordinary . . . Native Nations offers no less than a new interpretation of Native history.” — Lynton Prize Judges

About the author:

Kathleen DuVal is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches early American and American Indian history and is the author of several acclaimed books on early American and Indigenous history.

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