The native ground : indians and colonists in the heart of the continent /

"Moving beyond an 'Indians and Europeans' story, DuVal looks instead at competing and overlapping stories involving multiple Native groups who operate from different positions with different strategies and experiences, and incorporate an array of outsiders." Colin G. Calloway, Da...

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Main Authors: DuVal, Kathleen
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2006]
©2006
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Early american studies
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812201826
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Summary: "Moving beyond an 'Indians and Europeans' story, DuVal looks instead at competing and overlapping stories involving multiple Native groups who operate from different positions with different strategies and experiences, and incorporate an array of outsiders." Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: 20 illus.
ISBN: 9780812201826
Index Number: E78
CLC: K712.8
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Illustrations --
Introduction --
Chapter 1. A Bordered Land, to 1540 --
Chapter 2. Hosting Strangers, 1541 1650 --
Chapter 3. Negotiators of a New Land, 1650 1740 --
Chapter 4. An Empire in the West, 1700 1777 --
Chapter 5. New Alliances, 1765 1800 --
Chapter 6. Better at Making Peace Than War, 1790 1808 --
Chapter 7. A New Order, 1808 1822 --
Chapter 8. The End of the Native Ground? 1815 1828 --
Conclusion --
Abbreviations --
Notes --
Index --
Acknowledgments.