Merciless Indian Savages | First America

Revisionist History presents the first episode of First America, a new Pushkin podcast hosted by Rebecca Nagle. This episode reexamines the last grievance of the Declaration of Independence—the charge that King George incited “merciless Indian Savages”—and argues that hunger for Indigenous land was a primary driver of the American Revolution, not just taxation. Nagle sits down with Western Shoshone historian Ned Blackhawk to discuss how Native American resistance shaped early US democracy, unearthing a hidden chapter of the nation’s founding.