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In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members, far from helpless victims of colonial violence, dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political prestige, economic power, commercial reach, and cultural influence. Yet, until now, the Comanche empire has gone unrecognized in American history. This compelling and original book uncovers the lost story of the Comanches.

This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early 16th to the early 21st century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then - in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion - as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains.   

Kun Ikaros harhaili loppumattomassa labyrintissa, hän löysi tien ulos yllättävää kautta. Hän sai selkäänsä siivet, ja oikotie ulos labyrintista oli valmis. Terapeutti Pekka Hämäläinen kehottaa arkisissa haasteissa eläviä ihmisiä löytämään sisäisen Ikaroksensa - kuinka osata katsoa sinne, josta ei alun perin uskonut löytyvän vastausta? "Rohkeuden voima - Ikaroksen kutsu innostuksen siiville" tarjoilee lukijalle käytännöllisiä neuvoja siitä, miten päästä pois ahdistavasta elämäntilanteesta.