A discussion about Jeffrey Ostler's book Surviving Genocide (Yale University Press, 2019), part of a consultation with the HRI Native American History Research Cluster.
Jeffrey Ostler is the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon Emeritus. He is a specialist in the history of the American West, with a heavy focus on the history of American Indians. Ostler is the author of numerous publications Native American history. His most recent publications include Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (Yale University Press, 2019); "After 1776: Native Nations, Settler Colonialism, and the Meaning of America," Journal of Genocide Research (2022, with co-author Karl Jacoby); and "The Denial of Genocide in California: The Case of Gary Clayton Anderson," American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2022).