The Indian wars of Pennsylvania : an account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795 ; tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier based primarily on the Penna. archives and colonial records / by C. Hale Sipe ; introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo
793 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., fold. map (in pocket) ; 23 cm.
Notes
Tail-pieces.
"Principal sources utilized in the preparation of this work": p. [6]
"Officers of the colonies of the Delaware before the time of William Penn, and the governors of the province and the commonwealth from 1681 to 1799": p. [745]-746.
"Principal Indian towns in Pennsylvania": p. [747]-754.
"List of blockhouses not mentioned in the text of this history": p. [755]-761.
Includes information on the Conoy Indians, Conestoga Indians, Susquehanna Indians and Delaware Indians.
The Indian chiefs of Pennsylvania, or, A story of the part played by the American Indian in the history of Pennsylvania : based primarily on the Pennsylvania archives and colonial records, and built around the outstanding chiefs
Elder was minister at the Paxton Presbyterian church near Harrisburg.He exchanged numerous letters with Governor John Penn, Colonel Joseph Shippen, and other government officials, providing information on conditions in the backcountry. The author believes the letters show how the frontier residents struggled with their identity. They felt that they were viewed as renegades on the frontier, because of their actions against the Conestoga indians and they felt they were being disrespected when referred to as Scotch Irish. He suggests that further study of this identity issue would be worthwhile.
History of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs, embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits from the Indian gallery in the Department of War at Washington
Bucknell University Press, co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc.,
Date of Publication
[2013]
Physical Description
xv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Stories of the Susquehanna Valley
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.
Contents
Native American prehistory in the Susquehanna River Valley / David J. Minderhout -- Pennsylvania's Native Americans: History timeline / David J. Minderhout -- A story in stone: The Susquehanna's rock art legacy / Paul A. Nevin -- Native Americans in the Susquehanna River region: 1550 to today / David J. Minderhout -- "Blood Quantum" and lenape tradition / Donald R. Repsher -- Our story, ourselves: Oral histories of contemporary Native Americans / David J. Minderhout, Andrea T. Frantz, and Jessica D. Dowsett -- Oral tradition of one family of Pennsylvania Seneca descendants / Gerald E. Dietz -- Kiiloona Ktaaptoonehna: Munsee language revitalization on the Susquehanna's North branch / Susan M. Taffe Reed -- Lenapeyok neki: Those are lenopes / Kenneth R. Hayden -- Native lands country park / David J. Minderhout -- Afterword / Ann N. Dapice.
Summary
"This first volume in the new Stories of the Susquehanna Valley series describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay in northern Appalachia. Combining archaeology, history, cultural anthropology, and the study of contemporary Native American issues, contributors describe what is known about the Native Americans from their earliest known presence in the valley to the contact era with Europeans. They also explore the subsequent consequences of that contact for Native peoples, including the removal, forced or voluntary, of many from the valley, in what became a chilling prototype for attempted genocide across the continent. Euro-American history asserted that there were no native people left in Pennsylvania (the center of the Susquehanna watershed) after the American Revolution. But with revived Native American cultural consciousness in the late twentieth century, Pennsylvanians of native ancestry began to take pride in and reclaim their heritage. This book also tells their stories, including efforts to revive Native cultures in the watershed, and Native perspectives on its ecological restoration. While focused on the Susquehanna River Valley, this collection also discusses topics of national significance for Native Americans and those interested in their cultures."--Publisher's website.
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part 1: Limits of empire -- Cultural communities and the politics of land -- Kinship and the economics of empire -- Part 2: Empowered communities -- The Indian Great Awakening -- Mission community networks -- Part 3: War and peace -- Demonizing Delawares -- Quakers and the language of Indian diplomacy -- Part 4: Boundaries redrawn -- An uneasy peace -- Indian nations and empire.
Includes genealogies of three Native American families in Appendix B.
The article refers to a 17 page letter that John Dickinson wrote to the Paxton Boys in 1764. It follows that group's murder of the Conestoga Indians of Lancaster, PA. The letter is not shown, but the author is making the point that Dickinson, a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, was trying to persuade the group not to move against the Moravian Indians near Philadelphia by appealing to the Paxton's own self interest and showing understanding for their concerns and motivations.
