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.
"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.
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.
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.
