《Native Nations》是歷史學者凱瑟琳・杜瓦爾的研究著作,榮獲坎迪爾歷史獎,聚焦於北美原住民族在千年歷史中的角色與影響力。書中從千年前的城市文明談起,描寫原住民族如何建立多樣社會制度、經濟體系與外交關係。當歐洲殖民者抵達時,原住民並非被動接受,而是積極運用自身優勢與外來勢力互動。從莫霍克族的貿易策略,到夏安族、肖尼族等在主權與認同上的努力,本書展現出原住民族持續存在的政治與文化力量,是認識美洲歷史的重要觀點。WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE - "An essential American history" (The Wall Street Journal) that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE - "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling."--Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed. A mi