Ned Blackhawk

Ned Blackhawk
Born1971 (age 52–53)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationNon-fiction writer
AwardsNational Book Award for Nonfiction (2023)
Academic background
Alma materMcGill University
University of Washington
Academic work
DisciplineAmerican Indian studies
InstitutionsUniversity 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]

  1. ^ Internet Public Library
  2. ^ "Robert M. Utley Award". The Western History Association. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. ^ "Ned Blackhawk". Yale University Department of History. Retrieved January 3, 2018.