[A] towering achievement. By gathering the experiences of multiple Native peoples-across an astounding expanse of time and space-Indigenous Continent explodes the view that American history unfolded inexorably according to European and American design. -- Andrew Graybill - The American Scholar
[M]agisterial . . . the pace and the scope of the book have a force of their own: Hamalainen makes it clear that America's past is crazily, energetically, tumultuously crowded with incident; that Indigenous power has affected everything about America . . . I can only wish that, when I was that lonely college junior and was finishing Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I'd had Hamalainen's book at hand. It would have helped me see that there was indeed a larger story: that my civilization hadn't been destroyed; that my tribe's contribution to the past wasn't merely to fade away in the face of history; that Native peoples-for better or for worse-made this country what it was, and have a role to play in what it now struggles to be. -- David Treuer - The New Yorker
[T]he single best book I have ever read on Native American history, as well as one of the most innovative narratives about the continent. -- Thomas E. Ricks - The New York Times Book Review
Mr. Hamalainen's book provides a useful introduction to a vast history... -- Kathleen DuVall - The Wall Street Journal
The author, an Oxford historian, recasts the history of North America from a Native American perspective, making clear that Native tribes controlled the continent for millenniums ('On an Indigenous time scale, the United States is a mere speck'). One of the best books ever written on Native American history. -- The New York Times Book Review
Indigenous Continent, by the Oxford-based Finnish historian Pekka Hamalainen, looks at the US from a distance-and sees something that others have neglected. There are numerous other books about Native American history, but few that have made it so central to the American story as a whole. Here, the indigenous people aren't just the objects of nonindigenous violence -- Prospect
What could be more exciting than a book upending everything you thought you knew? Better yet if that book is peppered with interesting facts and written in a pacey, intriguing style by one of the finest minds of his generation: Pekka Hamalainen -- Joy Porter - BBC History Magazine