NATIVE AMERICANS - INTRODUCTION

[Andrea]

Yes, indeed! Thank you, Jerome!
Regards,
Andrea

[Jerome, Assisting Moderator - Upcoming Books and Releases]

Another:
Release date: February 10, 2026

The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States

by David J. Silverman (no photo)

Synopsis:

At the onset of their encounter, Europeans did not yet conceive of themselves as Whites, and Native Americans did not consider themselves "Indians." As a genocidal struggle for political, territorial, religious, and cultural dominance took shape over the course of generations, White Americans developed a sense of racial superiority and national mission-of being chosen. Indians, from this perspective, were damned and fated to disappear so Whites could spread Christian civilization.

In his game-changing new book The Chosen and the Damned, David J. Silverman traces four centuries of Native American history, from the bloody wars for territory that were waged across the colonies to the war of extermination justified as "Manifest Destiny"; from the creation of reservations and forced recruitment into boarding schools to the rise of the Red Power movement and beyond. He reveals how Native people cultivated a distinctive "Indian" identity that contributed to their resistance and resilience as modern tribal people, while also producing contentious disputes within tribes about whether people of mixed race can truly be called kin.

The epochal story of race in America has most often been seen as a battle between Black and White. The Chosen and the Damned restores the defining role Native people have played, and continue to play, in our national history. It is a powerful, heart-wrenching story, long overdue.

[Lorna, Assisting Moderator (T) - SCOTUS - Civil Rights]

This sounds like a wonderful book, Jerome. Thank you.

[Jerome, Assisting Moderator - Upcoming Books and Releases]

Another:
Release date: April 24, 2026

Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans' Fight for Sovereignty, 1776-2025

by Paul C. Rosier (no photo)

Synopsis:

Indigenous Citizens chronicles Native Americans’ extraordinary resilience and resistance to colonialism, coercive assimilation programs such as Indian Boarding Schools, and white Americans’ backlash against their treaty rights, from the American Revolution to the 2024 election. It highlights their efforts to both preserve tribal sovereignty and secure the civil rights accorded to other Americans, a dual citizenship codified in the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act.

Covering the arc of American history, Paul C. Rosier reveals Indigenous Americans’ vision of a country that lives up to the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Through patriotic military service, activism, and political writings Native Americans championed their belief in a multicultural America that honored its legal obligations as it assumed international prominence in the twentieth century. Indigenous Citizens is unique in its breadth, its focus on the evolution of Native peoples’ dual allegiances, and its coverage of twenty–first–century Indigenous issues.