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Indigenous prosperity and American conquest : Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 /
"What frustrated Washington was his ongoing failure to induce Indians north of the Ohio to cede their lands ... Washington had sought to pacify the Indians by abandoning the doctrine of discovery and reimbursing them for their lands. But they continued to refuse to come to the treaty table, con...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill :
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The agrarian village world of the Ohio Valley Indians
- The evolution of the Indian fur trade: from Green Bay to the Wabash River Valley
- Reopening the Western trade
- Webs of community: "The Gris & Turtle came to us and breakfasted with us as usual"
- Picturing prosperity
- Plunder and massacre
- Capturing Indian women
- "I foresaw, that if I parted with my land, I should reduce the women and children to weeping."