Book Review: Indigenous Continent, The Epic Contest For North America

Pekka Hämäläinen's sweeping new book on North American history

The four-hundred-year struggle to keep the continent Indigenous had stretched colonists from the European powers, and then the United States, to the breaking point again and again. The enormous range of Native nations and the sheer depth and multiplicity of their resistance had frustrated the colonists, if it did not kill them. Some nations relied on na…