edited by Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute.
ISBN
0807847348 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication
c1998.
Physical Description
x, 390 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Historic New Orleans Collection."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-382) and index.
Contents
Introduction : on the connection of frontiers / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute -- Shamokin, "the very seat of the Prince of darkness": unsettling the early American frontier / James H. Merrell -- Metaphor, meaning, and misunderstanding : language and power on the Pennsylvania frontier / Jane T. Merritt -- Black "go-betweens" and the mutability of "race," status, and identity on New York's pre-revolutionary frontier / William B. Hart -- "Insidious friends" : gift giving and the Cherokee-British alliance in the Seven Years' War / Gregory Evans Dowd --"Domestick ... quiet being broke" : gender conflict among Creek Indians in the eighteenth century / Claudio Saunt -- Pigs and hunters : "rights in the woods" on the trans-Appalachian frontier / Stephen Aron -- Distinctions and partitions amongst us : identity and interaction in the revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins -- "Noble actors" upon "the theatre of honour" : power and civility in the Treaty of Greenville / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the Western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- "More motley than Mackinaw" : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833 / John Mack Faragher -- Remembering American frontiers : King Philip's War and the American imagination / Jill Lepore.
"The bulk of the selections in this book...comes from the 17th and 18th centuries, when dealings with the newcomers were most extensive. The selections are from the Indian peoples who inhabited eastern North America, predominantly the area that today comprises the eastern United States...This short collection focuses on the eastern third of the continent, but it does include instances of Indian relations with Spanish, French, and Dutch as well as with English colonists...The collection generally is divided into topical chapters. The Revolutionary and early national periods occupy separate chapters, not because of the importance of the American Revolution in United States history...but because the changes generated by that event had profound consequences for Indian peoples in North America...The Indians' struggle for independence began much earlier and went on much longer, until at least 1795 when the united tribes of the Old Northwest were finally defeated. The final chapter provides some of their words from this period." [from the preface]
Material reprinted from: Description of the province of New Sweden, now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, 1834 and Johannes Campanius's Martin Luther's little catechism, 1696.
