Summer Book Club: Dr. Keith Pluymers on Indigenous America
Tides of History
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The Comanche and the Five and Six Nations
The Comanche have political institutions and ways of doing business that are really well suited to that lifestyle. The Five and Six Nations too, is it's not just that they're good at getting guns from European traders. "I think if you approach it with the mindset of a medieval or a kind of pre-modern European historian, his terms and categories make a ton of sense in terms of how a word like empire gets used"
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