Gathering together : the Shawnee people through diaspora and nationhood, 1600-1870 /

Weaving Indian and Euro-American histories together in this groundbreaking book, Sami Lakomäki places the Shawnee people, and Native peoples in general, firmly at the center of American history. The book covers nearly three centuries, from the years leading up to the Shawnees' first European c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lakomäki, Sami (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]
Series:Lamar series in western history.
Subjects:
Shawnee Indians > History.
Shawnee Indians > Social life and customs.
Shawnee > Histoire.
Shawnee > Mœurs et coutumes.
HISTORY > Native American.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Shawnee Indians.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Our Straggling Nation"
  • "The Greatest Travellers in America": The Shawnee Diaspora, 1600-1725
  • "The Sheynars in General": Unity and Diversity on Imperial Borderlands, 1725-1755
  • "The Chief of All the Tribes": Nation and Empire, 1755-1775
  • "A Struggle with Death": The Twenty Years' War, 1775-1795
  • "Become an Independent People": Rebuilding the Nation, 1795-1833
  • "Dispersed like Turkeys": The Odyssey of the Western Shawnees, 1782-1840
  • "Reunion": Sovereignty and Centralization, 1833-1870
  • Conclusion: A Living Nation.

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