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The people of the standing stone : the Oneida nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal /

Between 1765 and 1845, the Oneida Indian Nation weathered a trio of traumas: war, dispossession, and division. During the American War of Independence, the Oneidas became the revolutionaries' most important Indian allies. They undertook a difficult balancing act, helping the patriots while tryi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tiro, Karim M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2011.
Series:Native Americans of the Northeast.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A place and a people in a time of change: The Oneida Homeland in the 1760s
  • Narrowing paths: Oneida foreign relations, 1763-1775
  • The dilemmas of alliance: the Oneidas' American Revolution, 1775-1784
  • Misplaced faith: A decade of dispossession, 1785-1794
  • In a drowned land: state treaties and tribal division, 1795-1814
  • The nation in fragments: Oneida removal, 1815-1836
  • Diaspora and survival, 1836-1850
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. Selected Oneida population counts, 1763-1856.