"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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-247) and index.
Contents
Why should American Indian cultural objects be preserved? -- Handling considerations : one person's story -- The voice of the museum : developing displays -- Display in a proper and respectful way -- What about sacred objects? -- The causes of deterioration and preventive care -- How should cultural items be stored? -- Handling suggestions -- Housekeeping -- The issue of pesticide contamination -- How should cultural items be used for display? -- Registration methods and everyday business -- Skin and skin products -- Quills, horn, hair, feathers, claws, and baleen -- Shell -- Bone, antler, ivory, and teeth -- Glass beads -- Textiles -- Metals and alloys -- Wood and birch bark -- Ceramics -- Stone -- Plastics and modern materials -- Paper -- Plant materials -- Audiotapes and videotapes -- Framed items -- The value of preserving the past : a personal journey.
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution,
Date of Publication
c2008.
Physical Description
vi, 854 p. ill., facsims., maps ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliography (p. 761-812) and index.
Contents
The northern states -- The South -- Miscellaneous naval and military records -- Foreign allies -- West Indies -- Appendices. Map of the enslaved population, 1790 Census ; Documenting the color of participants in the American Revolution ; Names as clues to finding forgotten patriots ; The numbers of minority participants in the Revolution.
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
The ambiguous Iroquois empire : the Covenant Chain confederation of Iroquois and with English colonies from its beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744
Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-427) and index.
Contents
Chapters: Distinctions in deed and thought --An empire of convenience --A mixing of peoples --An iron Dutch chain --Logistics of intersocietal commerce --The Iroquoian "Beaver wars" --Odd man out --A silver English chain --Expansion and reaction --"They flourish and we decrease" --A link lost --Mending chain --A vise made in Europe --Desperation in Iroquoia --A new fire --Chain into fetters --Summit and slope --Conflict and accommodation.
Summary
The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of the Indian Tribes with English Colonies is Francis Jennings's second volume of his trilogy about Indian-white relations in America. In this volume he looks at the Parkman view of the Iroquois Confederacy as an empire and exposes the shortcomings of Parkman's perspective. Jennings describes the idea of the covenant chain as the binding relationship between the Iroquois and English colonies from their beginnings to the Treaty of Lancaster in 1744. Jennings (1918-2002) was the former director of the Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian.
