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The western Delaware Indian nation, 1730-1795 : warriors and diplomats /
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. C...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bethlehem :
Lehigh University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: to "enjoy the light of heaven"
- "We conquer'd you; we made women of you": the Delawares as women and the Six Nations-Pennsylvania chain of friendship
- The western migration of the Delawares, 1730-1750
- "We, the Delawares of Ohio, do proclaim war against the English": the political ascension of the western Delawares, 1750-1756
- "We are now men, and not so easily frightened": western Delaware identity during the Seven Years' War
- "On behalf of all our nation": the coming together of the turtle, turkey, and wolf
- White Eyes, the great council, and the united brethren: peacemakers on the Muskingum, 1770-1776
- The quest for nationhood: Delawares and the American Revolution
- "A nation...shattered, wrecked, and severed": the demise of the Delaware new world order, 1783-1795
- Conclusion: "that we might again be one people".