Ned Blackhawk, an American historian who is a member of the Te-Moak tribe and the Western Shoshone nation, teaches at Yale University. In recognition of his first significant work, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West (2006), he was awarded the Robert M. Utley Prize in 2007 as well as the Frederick Jackson Turner Award in the same year.
Blackhawk spent his childhood in Detroit, Michigan, where he was raised as a “...