Format:
1 online resource (355 pages)
ISBN:
9781611462258
Series Statement:
Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
Content:
During the eighteenth century, the three tribes of the Delaware Indians underwent dramatic transformation as they migrated westward across the Allegheny mountain to encounter new challenges and the clash of empires and nations in the turbulent British American backcountry of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Combining native oral traditions, ethnology, and colonial history Richard S. Grimes tells a compelling story of the western Delaware Indian nation; their emergence, triumphs, tribulations, and tragic fall.
Content:
Cover -- Maps -- Figures -- The Lenape and Munsee People -- The Paradigms of the Western Delaware Indian Ethnogenesis -- Cultural Reinvention -- Political Coalescence -- The Quest for a New World Order -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- "We Conquer'd You -- We Made Women of You" -- Matrilocalism and Lineage Authority among the Lenapes and Munsees -- Patriarchal Authority among the Lenapes and Munsees -- The Delawares and the Iroquois -- "Woman": The Historical Distortion -- The Alliance in Historical Application -- The People of the Longhouse Come to Penn's Woods: The Treaty of Friendship -- "You Run, Thats Not Fair, You Was to Walk": The Walking Purchase -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- The Western Migration of the Delawares, 1730-1750 -- Migratory Catalysts -- Movement -- The Ohio and a New Identity -- A Hunters' World -- The Economics of Hunting -- "Remain Where You Are" -- Those Who Remained in the East -- The Malcontents and "Mere Hunters" of the Ohio -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- "We, the Delawares of Ohio, Do Proclaim War against the English" -- Advancement to the Pennsylvania Borderlands -- "We Have Given Our Cousins, the Delawars, a King" -- The Political and Social Implications of the Shingas Affair -- The Ohio Becomes a Powder Keg -- "What Passed on the Monongahela" -- War on the Pennsylvania Frontier: Delawares Rattle the Covenant Chain -- A Statement of Autonomy -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- "We Are Now Men, and Not So Easily Frightened" -- The Spirit of the Masculine Order: An Indian Perspective -- The Spirit of the Masculine Order: A British Perspective -- Teedyuscung, the Easton Talks, and the Partitioning of the Delawares -- Pennsylvania Strikes Back -- In the Aftermath of Kittanning: Enter the Cherokee Nation -- Evaluating the Efforts of Teedyuscung and the Easton Talks -- The French and Indian War in Delaware Country -- Easton, 1758.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781611462241
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781611462241
Language:
English
