Ned Blackhawk | |
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Born | 1971 (age 52–53) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Non-fiction writer |
Awards | National Book Award for Nonfiction (2023) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | McGill University University of Washington |
Academic work | |
Discipline | American Indian studies |
Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison Yale University |
Ned Blackhawk (b. ca. 1971) is an enrolled member of the Te-Moak tribe of the Western Shoshone and a historian currently on the faculty of Yale University.[1] In 2007 he received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for his first major book, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West (2006) which also received the Robert M. Utley Prize in 2007.[2][3]