Ned Blackhawk

Ned Blackhawk (b. ca. 1971) is an enrolled member of the Te-Moak tribe of the Western Shoshone and a historian on the faculty of Yale University. In 2007 he received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Robert M. Utley Prize for his first major book, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West. He also received the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2023) and Mark Lynton History Prize (2024) for The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (2023).

Life Blackhawk is of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada, but grew up as an "urban Indian" in Detroit, Michigan. where he was on the faculty from 1999 to 2009. The other Yale professors are Hi'ilei Hobart and Tarren Andrews. Blackhawk is also affiliated with the Yale Group for the Study of Native America.

Blackhawk served until 2011 on the Managing Board of the American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association. In 2012 Blackhawk joined the advisory board of the International Museum for Family History.

Blackhawk's 2023 book The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, which depicts the history of Native Americans in the United States from European colonization to the present day, was well received and was awarded the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Ned is married to NYU professor of law, Maggie Blackhawk.

Awards 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize for The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Robert M. Utley Prize for Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West (2006) 1996–1997 Katrin H. Lamon Resident Scholar

Books

- for young adults Violence Over the Land: Colonial Encounters in the American Great Basin, University of Washington, 1999