Eohippa

Have been a @ColinWoodard fan since his 2011 book "American Nations," and his prescient reporting outing profiteering charter schools in Maine.

What a nice surprise to have him and Yascha Mounk talking about our regional history and politics in my inbox this morning.

The one question I have for #ColinWoodard is: Given the Graeber/Wendrow work, "The Dawn of Everything," we can have some inkling of our rich and varied indigenous history. Has anyone looked at how those cultural/political maps line up with the colonial systems that eventually won the day?

https://www.persuasion.community/p/woodard#details

Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations

Listen now (76 min) | Yascha Mounk and Colin Woodard discuss how the attitudes of America’s founding groups inform today’s regional politics.

Persuasion
Jul 22, 2023 at 10:06pmWeb
Show threadColin WoodardAug 26, 2023
@Eohippa I haven't done a systematic examination of that, but generally speaking the colonizers didn't respect or take interest in the boundaries between indigenous nations. Because the latter tended to be watershed-defined there's some coincidental overlap here and there. (The distinct colonizer cultures *did* have very different stances toward the North Americans, though as discussed in the book.)