Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad drum Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker

Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker

developing new relationships with non-Native governments

he has done it again

This message not only succeeded in uniting the tribes but also forever changed how the Iroquois governed themselves—a blueprint for democracy that would later inspire the authors of the U

who revived the sacred but outlawed Ghost Dance

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad drum Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk SongmakerEmpire's Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial