Tag Archives: Pekka Hamalainen

What political, environmental, cultural, or other factors helped Native people to exercise power in the colonial era?

Native Power in Colonial America Although European empires sought to control Native people’s lands and lives in colonial North America, historians including Richard White and Pekka Hamalainen have demonstrated that Native societies were able to exercise considerable power in certain circumstances. For this essay, describe the middle ground in the pays d’en haut (as depicted […]