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Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

by David J. Silverman

The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America’s indigenous peoples―a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians’ historical relationship with

Publisher

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Publication date

2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

371

ISBN

9780674737471