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The Worlds the Shawnees Made : Migration and Violence in Early America /
"In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier." Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee pe...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Rethinking place and identity in American Indian histories
- Continuity and reinvention at the dawn of colonization: The parochial cosmopolitans of the Middle Ohio Valley ; Nitarikyk's slave: a Fort Ancient odyssey
- The lure of colonial borderlands: A ranging sort of people: migration and slavery on the Savannah River ; The Grand Village of the Kaskaskias: old allegiances, new worlds ; "Mixt nations" at the head of the bay: the Iroquois, Bacon's Rebels, and the peoples in between
- Becoming strangers: the long history of removal: One head and one heart: migration, coalescence, and Penn's imagined community on the Lower Susquehanna ; One colour and as one body: race, trade, and migration to the Ohio country ; Race, revitalization, and warfare in the eighteenth-century southeast
- Epilogue: Reconsidering the "literary advantage."