David Bernstein is a historian and photographer.
 
 
 

¿How the West Was Drawn is a revisionist and interdisciplinary understanding of the global imperial contest for North America’s Great Plains that provides the fine details of the Pawnees’, Iowas’, and Lakotas’ geopolitical and cultural strategies in a rapidly changing world.

 

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
 
Part 1: Living in Indian Country
1. Constructing Indian Country
2. Sharitarish and the Possibility of Treaties
3. Nonparticipatory Mapping
 
Part 2: The Rise and Fall of “Indian Country”
4. The Cultural Construction of “Indian Country”
5. Science and the Destruction of “Indian Country”
 
Part 3:  Reclaiming Indian Country
6. The Metaphysics of Indian Naming
Conclusion

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index