1971) is an enrolled member of the Te-Moak tribe of the Western Shoshone and a historian currently on the faculty of Yale University.

[1] 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.

[3] In the fall of 2009, Blackhawk joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is affiliated with the History and American Studies departments.

[6] In 2012 Blackhawk joined the Advisory Board of the International Museum for Family History.

Blackhawk's 2023 book The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, which depicts the history of Native Americans in the United States from European colonization to the present day, was well received and was awarded the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction.