Ned Blackhawk
Ned Blackhawk | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 (age 53–54) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Non-fiction writer |
| Awards | National Book Award for Nonfiction (2023) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | McGill University University of Washington |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | American Indian studies |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison Yale University |
Ned Blackhawk (b. ca. 1971) is an enrolled member of the Te-Moak tribe of the Western Shoshone and a historian currently on the faculty of Yale University. In 2007 he received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for his first major book, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West (2006) which also received the Robert M. Utley Prize in 2007.